Spot on. Just as Americans listening to Perry Como, Andy Williams etc then hearing Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard was a revelation then being brought up on the likes of Ronnie Hilton, Max Bygraves and other similar types then hearing Billy Fury, Marty Wilde and Cliff Richard was the same. Looks tame nowadays but it wasn't at the time. There were newspaper articles asking if parents should let their daughters go to a Cliff Richard concert.
Hey don't knock all of the crooners some had some had good voices, sh*te songs yes I agree, but Johnny Ray and Michael Holiday were decent singers and people still talk with affection about The Rat Pack.
Nobody is knocking crooners. Johnny Ray was like a halfway house between swing and rock and roll.Just commenting on how it must have been suddenly to hear rock and roll after basically having the same music as your parents. Up until then people left school and immediately became miniatures of their parents, suddenly there were these strange beings called teenagers with their own fashions and music. And the adults didn't like it. Which made it all the better. They managed to make pop music bland again until the Beatles came along like a breath of fresh air, then the whole Stones, rebellion thing which parents were up in arms about. Which was great. That is the point of things like and roll, something your parents and oldies hate. Unlike most music now where parents go along with their kids to see the latest manufactured band or winners of some crap TV "Talent" show. Punk was the last time there was music you could like which you knew your parents wouldn't.
Agree, the irony of course is that those 'rebellious Stones' and the likes are now the parents/grandparents of today and they embrace fans young and old in their gigs, so whole families got to the same concert to see artists in their 60's and 70' from the 60's and 70's.
Yes, the biggest irony is that Jagger and all the other anti-establishment figures are now part of the establishment. Still happening now of course.
Yes rather odd, Sir Michael Jagger and Sir Paul McCartney but no Sir Keith Richards or Sir Charles Watts or Sir Richard Starkey, unless they turned it down of course.
