Rock and Roll... And The Beat Goes On

By Bruce Morrow ISBN: 9781936140282 format: Paperback pages: 320 publisher: Imagine Pub Inc pub. date: 2011-04-01

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Rock & Roll is here to stay so get back to the roots of the most exciting, explosive musical era with the man who saw it all happen: legendary radio personality Cousin Brucie!

Rock & Roll is about the music and the people. Every major artist presented here participated in the earth-shattering changes that unfolded over the decades, from the time rock started to roll in the 50s. Elvis swiveled his hips to the screams of teens and the horror of their parents. Then came the attack of the Union Jack, with the madness of Beatlemania quickly followed by The Dave Clark Five, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and countless others. Petula Clark and Dusty Springfield belted it out with newly emerging girl power. Teens across America went Surfing USA to the sounds of The Beach Boys, while Detroit Soul had kids dancing in the streets. Hippies flew high on Jefferson Airplane and Woodstock galvanized a nation. Records like Sergeant Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Pet Sounds changed the way music was produced forever. The list of artists who parade brilliantly across these pages is nothing less than breathtaking: Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and the Doors, Rod Stewart, the Allman Brothers, Alice Cooper, Franki Vallie and the Four Seasons, and so many more.

Cousin Brucie puts the music in its historical context .The songs unfold against a backdrop of social upheaval, from JFK, Martin Luther King, civil rights, and anti-war movements to the first Earth Day, Batman, Women s Lib, and Watergate. The book teems with archival photography, much of it rare, posters, album covers, record labels, newspaper articles, magazine covers, poems, quotes, and more. Bonus: Cousin Brucie s greatest artists,, with their top 250+ songs, and an amazing array of sidebars and stories about the history and background of rock .And you ll be blown away by the Rock and Roll Dictionary all the slang you loved to hear.

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