Chuck Berry and Little Richard? You should look into them.Tricky-Loops wrote:Rock 'n Roll was always WHITE music. Blues was black music...robojam wrote:It was also about finding a way of selling black music to the white masses.ZenPunkHippy wrote:It think it was more about sneaking sexualised lyrics past the censorship board.Tricky-Loops wrote:Wasn't rock 'n roll kind of a rebelling of the poor against the upper class?
Rock n roll, all night long
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Rolling Stones 2014 Aussie tour ticket prices :-(
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True, "My Ding-A-Ling" is probably the greatest of blues songsegbert wrote:Chuck Berry and Little Richard? You should look into them.Tricky-Loops wrote:Rock 'n Roll was always WHITE music. Blues was black music...robojam wrote:It was also about finding a way of selling black music to the white masses.ZenPunkHippy wrote:It think it was more about sneaking sexualised lyrics past the censorship board.Tricky-Loops wrote:Wasn't rock 'n roll kind of a rebelling of the poor against the upper class?
Rock n roll, all night long
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Steve
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Yep. Right up there with Reelin and Rockin and Lucille.bradleyfilms wrote:True, "My Ding-A-Ling" is probably the greatest of blues songsegbert wrote:Chuck Berry and Little Richard? You should look into them.Tricky-Loops wrote:Rock 'n Roll was always WHITE music. Blues was black music...robojam wrote:It was also about finding a way of selling black music to the white masses.ZenPunkHippy wrote:It think it was more about sneaking sexualised lyrics past the censorship board.Tricky-Loops wrote:Wasn't rock 'n roll kind of a rebelling of the poor against the upper class?
Rock n roll, all night long
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Steve
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Shurely shome mishtake, deceased isn't spelled that way.SODDI wrote:I like the description of Woody and Keef "flanking Jagger like a pair of diseased crows."
Steve