History of British Rock - Part 2

The documentary continues with the early Sixties music scene in Liverpool and the Mersey scene.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Sixties
• London
• Liverpool
• Mersey
• Cavern
• Beatles
• Brian
• Epstein

[jeffcool78]

cool dude never saw this before. thank you for sharing this what other rock documetries do you have.

[tunenito]

Great-- thanks for watching! The Rory Storm & the Hurricanes clip I have up is from the BEAT CITY (1963) documentary. Highly recommened.

[brousseaua]

Who is the narrator? His voice is so familiar.....any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[tunenito]

British actor Michael York.

[giacblanc]

Tunetio, I was about to play the Trio of Doom just before deciding to play one more video after viewing Syd Barret and Peter Murphy.! Spooky. The cd bgan to play immediately after this (Trrack 3). Thanks for posting

[tunenito]

That's cool . . . thanks for the comment.

:-)

[cookmoore]

I listen to the devils' music

and this is great!

[binkle1]

Listen to "Helter Skelter" or "Get Back." I rest my case.

[xPressOStartx]

Skiffle was ironic: American folk music had roots in English and Irish immigrants of the 17th century. The guitar, an Arabian invention, found it's way to England Via Spain, and became very popular amongst rural folk. The old English songs were soon mixed in a soup made up of many different styles: Blues, Bluegrass, cotton picking songs, Gospel and railroad songs. Add the electric guitar and drums and you get the best music: Rock and Roll!

[stormcats2]

@IainB1511 this doco is very flawed.. but to say 'i wanna hold your hand' is nothing musically reeks of confusing a hookline with what the composition actually does in its entirety. Even the punchline, a complete major scale descending ....... g f# e d c b a g is unique to this day.

[kraken589]

4:14 nobody could hear them playing not even the beatles themselves

[IainB1511]

To discount everything from Chuck Berry to the Beatles is such a load of crap, even Lennon has said that everything before Cliff Richard and the Drifters, Move It, there was no British Rock and Roll. And when the Beatles hit the US, many musicians there went WHAT??? but the stuff that was originally released in the US was 2 years behind the times, The Beatles first hit in the US "I want to hold your hand" was nothing musically, rather simple, but what drove it was the hype.

[N9BJJ]

The programme is VASTLY inaccurate. In America they think it started with the Beatles. There were fantastic groups/ singers like Michael Holliday, Helen Shapiro, Billy Fury, and many others on "Oh Boy" and "6-5 Special". They may have been unknown in the states - doesn't mean it wasn't happening.They've just skipped a huge chunk of music there and its so wrong. If people look what was going on in those years before the Beatles hit, there were a lot of really great home grown talent.

[cavanfan]

what a gross oversimplification of the facts. This is how history becomes "rewritten" and the shame is the future historians will look at stuff such as this and believe it as "fact".

[NeilThompson30]

What a load of bollocks - how can you skip straight from when Bill Haley went home (the start of 1957) to the Meseybeat era seven years later. What was safe about Cliff Richard and the Drifters first album - no mention of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Vince Taylor or Shane Fenton and the Fentones - and why is there no mention of them? - cause they were nothing in the States - WHO CARES.

[EbsNhexz]

I like the working class routes of british rock, with the depression the oppressed classes could have become bigoted and intolerant. But instead they became all embracing in terms of culture and music, and became the centre for the country's social growth. Nowadays class means less and less, simon cowell is in danger of putting music back in the hands of the moguls, but real people see x factor as unintelligent family entertainment and not music.

[w9x7cv3vg6]

where is that blonde that was screaming in this pic,come on...where is she haha

[TheWhitehall]

The first Liverpool pop/rock performer to hit the scene in a big way was Billy Fury in 1959.