Please Please Me offers an insider's view of the British pop-music recording industry during the seminal period of 1956 to 1968, based on personal recollections, contemporary accounts, and all relevant data that situate this scene in the economic, political, and social context of postwar Britain...
Downtown, 1956-1965–the first volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In–describes the rise of London’s music and recording cultures through the stories of those who empowered Britain’s youth to be young. As the generations born in the postwar world entered adolescence and demanded a say ...
The brightest stars are linked to the British Invasion, and the Motown and San Francisco sounds”. Music an easy way to express an opinion about certain topic. “The mood” came to replace the “The message”. This can produce major influences in the culture and it did. This total change...
Scooters were hugely popular in the 1950's and the early modernists by and large adopted the Italian made machines such as the Vespa GS and series 1 + 2 Lambretta for being stylistically superior to the British machines of the day. The weather of London in this era was frequently cold thu...
6. Which British Invasion era British singer had a US hit with "Summer Nights" in 1965. Hint Cilla Black Petula Clark Marianne Faithfull Dusty Springfield 7. Which song was a 1978 US Top Twenty for the group Night? Hint Summer Sand Summer (The First Time) Summer Rain Hot Summer Nights...
Fronted by Van Morrison,Themwere one of the hottest and most inspired groups to come out of the Sixties British Invasion movement. “Baby, Please Don’t Go” was slated to be the group’s second single after Morrison and Co. had dropped “Don’t Start Crying Now” a few mo...
While incorporating Pop Art procedures, NETCO produced landscapes that provided innovative images of a West Coast lifestyle mimicking notions of leisure and industry promoted by the likes ofBeautiful British Columbia—a government-sponsored magazine fashioned afterNational Geographicwhich painted a picture ...
Keeler, Christine: The London call girl who almost brought down the British government when her affair with Secretary of State for War John Profumo was exposed. She and her fellow sex worker Mandy Rice-Davies occupied the headlines for weeks as the scandal dragged on. ...
“I found a job with Ensoniq, a keyboard company,” said Boggia. “I worked there for nine years and then started making music full-time in 1996. I started out playing open mic nights. My first booked gig was at the Tin Angel opening for Kirsty McCool, a great British singer who tra...
moving over to England for the power trio of British Blues, and back home to America with the greatest blues-rock guitarist of all time, Jimi Hendrix. Then, the finest of San Francisco acid rock improvisations, followed by the mountain jam of all time, inspired by the acid rock and in ...