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82. ‘I normally try to start’: Murray, How to Write a Hit Song, p. 4.
83. ‘boy meets girl’: ibid.
84. ‘It is very rarely, these days’: ibid., p. 5.
85. ‘If you really study your market’: ibid.
86. ‘when they have passed through’: DM, 25 September 1963.
87. ‘I knew it would happen’: Record Retailer, 26 September 1963.
88. ‘They are the only two’: Leslie, Fab, p. 136
CHAPTER 16: Sorry, Parents
1. ‘Dylan reduces the idiosyncratic’: Charles Fox in G, September 1962.
2. ‘So the Beatles like Bob Dylan’: MM, 26 December 1964
3. ‘a sailor’s lament’: BB, 22 June 1963.
4. ‘the ultimate influence’: BB, 17 August 1963.
5. ‘This particular decade has not’: Coward, Lyrics, p. 361.
6. ‘The vast teenage population’: MM, 5 October 1963.
7. ‘what looks like the next’: BB, 23 November 1963
8. ‘drag racing is practically’: BB, 12 October 1963.
9. ‘It’s taken over the radio stations’: Columbia Records advertisement, April 1965.
10. ‘[Dylan], as a personality’: Rave, June 1965.
11. ‘I reckon the Beatles’: MM, 8 February 1964.
12. ‘[The Stones] are probably the coolest’: Records Magazine, May 1964.
13. ‘a form of protest’: NME, 6 March 1964.
14. ‘March is Mantovani Month’: London Records advertisement, March 1964.
15. ‘To many, the tunes have never’: BB, 6 June 1964.
16. ‘It was the last night of the Proms’: MM, 19 October 1963.
17. ‘He’s dreamy and has that little’: Rave, November 1964.
18. ‘Thames beat’: BB, 4 January 1964.
19. ‘The Mersey Sound’: Epic Records advertisement, January 1964.
20. ‘I thought Peter Noone’: RS, 21 December 1972.
21. ‘He’s the sort of boy’: Rave, February 1965.
22. ‘everybody’s dream in the whole world’: Datebook, October 1966.
23. ‘When you see a six-year-old’: RS, 1 April 1971.
24. ‘win you the devotion’: BB, 25 March 1967.
25. ‘When they accepted by adults’: MM, 18 April 1964.
26. ‘They’re great!’: London Records advertisement, May 1964.
27. ‘inarticulate … childish’: Disc, 18 July 1964.
28. ‘Elvis has proved he has real’: ibid.
29. ‘they have caught the imagination’: MM, 26 September 1964.
30. ‘Suddenly popular music’: RS, 10 August 1968.
31. ‘Why is it criminal’: MM, 7 November 1964.
Chapter 17: Highlife
1. ‘[They’re] the undisputed rulers’: Ebony, June 1965.
2. ‘Motown is black music’: RS, 14 December 1967.
3. ‘We call it sweet music’: Ebony, June 1965.
4. ‘because Paul McCartney’: BB, 9 October 1965.
5. ‘While the Supremes will probably’: BB, 7 August 1965.
6. ‘The lyrics are offensive’: BB, 9 November 1963.
7. ‘the introduction of what can’: Negro Digest, July 1965.
8. ‘We have found that the African’: African Music, Vol. 1:1.
9. ‘I said to myself’: Moore, Fela, p. 75.
10. ‘in decay’: African Music, vol. 1:1.
11. ‘In January 1955’: ibid.
12. ‘Ska was typically frowned’: Katz, Jimmy Cliff, p. 34.
13. ‘It was not played on the radio’: Katz, Solid Foundation, p. 56.
14. ‘It looks like somebody’s’: Record Mail, March 1964.
15. ‘the insistent thrump’: ibid.
16. ‘Consequently … became outsiders’: Letts, Culture Clash, p. 35.
17. ‘I said to myself, “How do Africans”’: Moore, p. 85.
18. ‘The whole club started jumping’: Moore, Fela, p. 88.
19. ‘We can make any location’: BB, 6 February 1965.
20. ‘[LSD] is turning discos’: Rave, June 1966.
21. ‘the most danceable tunes ever’: BB, 6 February 1965.
22. ‘Frug, Watusi, Mule’: Roure advertisement, February 1965.
23. ‘There were queues up and down’: MM, 17 July 1965.
24. ‘The Byrds’ sound combines’: BB, 12 June 1965.
25. ‘aimed at the teen market’: BB, 17 July 1965.
Chapter 18: Freak Out People
1. ‘Honesty, candour, frankness’: Rave, June 1965.
2. ‘I was a freshman’: RS, 11 July 1996.
3. ‘a complete banality’: Michael Cox in G, September 1964.
4. ‘They all start with strumming’: Steve Race in Crescendo, September 1964.
5. ‘could be the biggest thing yet’: Disc, 18 July 1964.
6. ‘I like his whole attitude’: MM, 9 January 1965.
7. ‘but we Beatle-ified it’: ibid.
8. ‘The average pop-minded teenager’: MM, 23 January 1965.
9. ‘A six-minute single?’: Columbia Records advertisement, July 1965.
10. ‘“Like a Rolling Stone” will offend’: MM, 7 August 1965.
11. ‘folk twist music’: BB, 15 August 1964.
12. ‘anyone with an interest in discussing’: Crawdaddy, August 1966.
13. ‘Let South Africa run’: MM, 30 January 1965.
14. ‘Stars and celebrities should’: ibid.
15. ‘I have to say that the native’: MM, 8 April 1961.
16. ‘We can sing more coloured’: Time, 21 May 1965.
17. ‘I wish I’d been born coloured’: MM, 5 January 1963.
18. ‘I don’t really see that playing’: MM, 16 January 1965.
19. ‘the song might offend people’: MM, 20 February 1965.
20. ‘African bushman hairdo’: Teen Set, August 1967.
21. ‘A song’s lyrical content’: BB, 12 June 1965.
22. ‘Protest songs make me concentrate’: MM, 2 October 1965.
23. ‘Rock + Folk + Protest’: BB, 21 August 1965.
24. ‘inimical to military morale’: BB, 15 January 1966.
25. ‘It is absurd to expect’: ibid.
26. ‘We’re more popular than Jesus’: Datebook, September 1966.
27. ‘I believe it is good’: Datebook, October 1966.
28. ‘Everyone needs kicks’: Rave, March 1966.
29. ‘Most of the kids I know’: Ebony, August 1969.
30. ‘Psychedelia! Wot’s that?’: Honey, February 1967.
31. ‘It involves an effect produced’: Record Mail, November 1966.
32. ‘Soon there’ll be sounds’: MM, 9 October 1965.
33. ‘There’s nothing going on’: ibid.
34. ‘As far as the Beatles are concerned’: Rave, April 1966.
35. ‘I like rock ’n’ roll, man’: RS, 21 January 1971.
36. ‘Major sections of major US cities’: Ebony, August 1967.
37. ‘What we may be witnessing’: DB, 2 May 1968.
38. ‘It was not the performances’: BB, 8 July 1967.
39. ‘his modal-tuned, chicken-choke’: ibid.
40. ‘slipshod, lazy way’: DB, 10 August 1967.
41. ‘[The audience] were listening’: Clapton, Autobiography, p. 99.
42. ‘Destined to become 67’s’: Reprise Records advertisement, May 1967.
43. ‘We are in the midst’: Shaw, The Rock Revolution, p. 3.
44. ‘It was like living at a time’: Isaacson, Steve Jobs, p. 25.
45. ‘At the moment, it appears’: Shaw,
The Rock Revolution, p. 195.
46. ‘The crowd eyes the longhaired’: Perrone, Brazilian Popular Music, p. 107.
47. ‘If rock ’n’ roll’: Ebony, November 1965.
48. ‘Apparently the Communists’: BB, 4 December 1965.
49. ‘The sense of it is that’: Rave, January 1967.
50. ‘When I bash my guitar’: Rave, March 1966.
51. ‘It’s beginning to affect’: Rave, February 1966.
52. ‘You’d be surprised how many’: ibid.
53. ‘ear-splitting vibrations’: IT, 13–26 March 1967.
54. ‘suggested that all visitors’: BB, 8 April 1967.
55. ‘a VALID and ACTUAL’: ibid.
56. ‘40,000 purple hearts’: BB, 27 May 1967.
Chapter 19: Flying Through the Air
1. ‘We were asked not to excite’: Record Mail, March 1966.
2. ‘Listening to it is like flying’: American Record Guide, June 1966.
3. ‘I almost had my Mom’: Tiger Beat, August 1966.
4. ‘The happiest sound’: BB, 6 March 1965.
5. ‘Jazz today is Cannonball’: BB, 24 April 1965.
6. ‘contributed immensely’: BB, 10 September 1966.
7. ‘She will be around fifty years’: syndicated column, c.20 January 1963.
8. ‘Why should you put music’: IT, 21–28 April 1967.
9. ‘A lot of Madison Avenue type guys’: RS, 27 May 1971.
10. ‘Tape has unbeatable advantages’: Time, 28 June 1954.
11. ‘so simple that anyone’: Record Mail, September 1966.
12. ‘Frightening’: Rave, March 1967.
13. ‘One of these days you’ll go’: ibid.
14. ‘I still have a feeling’: MM, 8 February 1964.
15. ‘a TV, hi-fi, electric shoe’: MM, 13 January 1962.
16. ‘Here it is at last’: Record Retailer, 12 April 1962.
17. ‘We have a long way to go’: Record Mail, May 1962.
Chapter 20: The New Prophets
1. ‘Don’t underestimate the power’: RS, 20 January 1968.
2. ‘Most rock and roll musicians’: RS, 20 July 1968.
3. ‘so bloody real’: Bang Records advertisement, October 1967.
4. ‘mob reaction’: Hit Parader, July
1968.
5. ‘Somehow Sgt. Pepper’: RS, 23 July 1970.
6. ‘It is very strange making’: RS, 18 February 1971.
7. ‘What it boils down to’: NME, 4 August 1973.
8. ‘The Sacred and Inspirational’: Word Records advertisement, September 1963.
9. ‘I’ve played dubs of this mass’: BB, 9 December 1967.
10. ‘actually preached that the syncopated’: Thompson, Raised by Wolves, p. 30.
11. ‘A racy, rollicking’: Ebony, May 1970.
12. ‘It has nothing to do with Black people’: ibid.
13. ‘even becoming superstars’: Rave, October 1968.
14. ‘If Presley were on the next plane’: Hit Parader, November 1968.
15. ‘Don’t be surprised if in 1978’: Rave, May 1968.
16. ‘If you are a groover’: RS, 22 June 1968.
17. ‘the Beatles … and the Animals’: BB, 9 January 1965.
Chapter 21: Devil’s Interval
1. ‘The British scene’: Rave, July 1969.
2. ‘There is a lack of excitement’: RS, 10 December 1970.
3. ‘The Beatles pattern’: RS, 7 February 1970.
4. ‘The Rock Machine’: Columbia Records advertisement, February 1968.
5. ‘It is apparent that rock’: Shaw, The Rock Revolution, p. 178.
6. ‘My birthday is March 3rd’: RS, 29 April 1971.
7. ‘everything from be-bop’: Jet, 10 January 1952.
8. ‘Donny never has a bad thought’: Bill Sammett’s liner notes for Osmonds LP MGM SE 4724 (1970).
9. ‘What I’ve been trying to do’: Sounds, 3 April 1971.
10. ‘As annoying as watching’: Cream, October 1972.
11. ‘They look like builder’s labourers’: NME, 11 August 1973.
12. ‘would ultimately provide a safe haven’: Cope, Copendium, p. 604.
13. ‘glam-rock may have had no more’: ibid., p. 621.
14. ‘There’s an incredible desire’: Sounds, 27 March 1971.
15. ‘Heavy Metal Rock is amazingly’: NME, 6 October 1973.
16. ‘There were kids actually bashing’: NME, 24 February 1973.
17. ‘They are a sort of release valve’: NME, 14 April 1973.
18. ‘trash with a rock beat’: Jazz & Pop, November 1969.
19. ‘very insensitive grossness’: Lester Bangs in RS, 26 November
1970.
20. ‘gross, disgusting object’: RS, 13 August 1989.
21. ‘Tony came up with this riff’: Osbourne, I Am Ozzy pp. 82–3.
22. ‘I can honestly say’: ibid., p. 99.
23. ‘We’ve even had a few witches’: Rave, August 1970.
24. ‘I’m scared of them’: RS, 28 October 1971.
25. ‘It is our policy to avoid’: NME, 12 December 1970.
26. ‘evolved from writing hard rock’: BB, 11 March 1967.
27. ‘We had a place in forming’: Walser, Running with the Devil, p. 9.
28. ‘We’ve all gotten comfortable’: Cream, November 1971.
29. ‘Now progressive music’: ibid.
30. ‘Lowest common denominator’: RS, 19 August 1971.
31. ‘The spirit of American punk-rock’: RS, 6 January 1972.
32. ‘Maybe anybody who cannot dig’: Cream, November 1971.
33. ‘Their roots seem to be planted’: RS, 6 January 1972.
Chater 22: Push Button Rock
1. ‘I don’t think we’ll see’: RS, 27 May 1971.
2. ‘95% of all illegitimate’: RS, 3 February 1972.
3. ‘more deadly than heroin’: NME, 14 February 1976.
4. ‘To think it could cause your child’: RS, 3 February 1972.
5. ‘this must have been a sort’: RS, 4 March 1971.
6. ‘There had been no brother/sister’: RS, 4 July 1974.
7. ‘All the bands were just playing’: NME, 21 February 1976.
8. ‘You could say I’m the Ray Conniff’: RS, 16 August 1973.
9. ‘I’d like to have nine pianos’:
ibid.
10. ‘I regret facing the fact’: RS, 7 October 1976.
11. ‘I realize the Beatles did fill’: press conference, 23 October 1974.
12. ‘I don’t like oldies’: NME, 10 August 1974.
13. ‘Legally speaking’: NME, 20 October 1973.
14. ‘neglected market’: Deejay & Radio Monthly, December 1972.
15. ‘Very heavy, it was’: NME, 6 April 1974.
16. ‘isn’t a nostalgic get-together’: RS, 29 March 1973.
17. ‘Letters have poured in’: Record Mirror, 13 July 1974.
18. ‘We’re trying to create a 1974’: Record Mirror, 15 June 1974.
19. ‘They have no record contract’: NME, 9 February 1974.
20. ‘we do our music live’: RS, 20 May 1976.
21. ‘What is actually happening’: Ink, 24 July 1971.
22. ‘I still ask myself why’: Crosby, Since Then, p. 121.
23. ‘The very last thing [Mick]’: NME, 18 August 1973.
24. ‘Rock music has become’: NME, 16 March 1973.
25. ‘one can easily envisage a Floyd’: NME, 23 November 1974.
26. ‘frustrates analysis’: RS, 18 November 1976.
27. ‘Groups have tried that laid-back’: NME, 1 February 1975.
28. ‘Two hundred million Americans’: RS, 7 April 1979.
29. ‘a parody of the mad doctor’: NME, 1 January 1977.
Chapter 23: Union of Bodies
1. ‘Black music’s basically rhythmic’: BM, October 1976.
2. ‘Each dances by his or her self’: BM, June 1974.
3. ‘R&B music, especially’: Ebony, March 1972.
4. ‘Moving to music, and the sensation’: BM, January 1976.
5. ‘I find it mindbending’: BB, 7 April 1979.
6. ‘a complete repatriation’: NME, 5 October 1974.
7. ‘Here in New York’: BM, January 1976.
8. ‘His tour de force’: Goldman, Disco, p. 115.
9. ‘I love to see people turn on’: BM, January 1976.
10. ‘singers found that their vocals’: Echols, Hot Stuff, pp. 9–10.
11. ‘When the punk rockers first’: Vibe, December 1994/January 1995.
12. ‘I found a way to start’: Katz, Groove Music, p. 55.
13. ‘With this seemingly unremarkable’: ibid., p. 70.
14. ‘Such has been the impact’: Record Mirror, 10 January 1976.
15. ‘The disco sound is a sound’: RS, 13 January 1973.
16. ‘The sensation that’s sweeping’: BM, December 1973.
17. ‘We just got carried along’: BM, April 1975.
18. ‘For the first time in my life’: BM, December 1974.
19. ‘We would like to think’: Ebony, March 1975.
20. ‘the first disposable King’: RS, 28 August 1975.
21. ‘16 to 60, Barry is hurting’: BM, July 1975.
22. ‘endless tedium’: NME, 16 March 1974.
23. ‘almost complete lack’: ibid.
24. ‘Uncle Tom’: ibid.
25. ‘the most artificial shit’: Echols, Hot Stuff, p. 10.
26. ‘an electronically boosted bass’: RS, 28 August 1975.
27. ‘seem totally committed to making’: BM, June 1975.
28. ‘Rock and roll in its purest form’: RS, 28 August 1975.
29. ‘Dylan goes disco’: Record Mirror, 15 January 1976.
30. ‘I love the music’: RS, 25 March 1976.
31. ‘Disco’s greatest fans are women’: Ebony, October 1977.
32. ‘the music of the brave new world’: RS, 12 January 1978.
33. ‘is expected to move purposefully’: BB, 8 January 1977.
34. ‘Brazilians began to use neologistic’: Echols, Hot Stuff, p. 200.
35. ‘disco became the biggest thing in pop’: RS, 19 April 1979.
36. ‘Atmospheric bumpy’: Record Mirror, 24 May 1980.
37. ‘Excellent remix of the lazily’: ibid.
38. ‘Every song had to have Deep’: Rodgers Le Freak, p. 129.
39. ‘Back then, most R&B acts’: ibid., p. 139.
40. ‘Audiences no longer leave’: BB, 28 April 1979.
41. ‘Disco Rules, But Where’: BB, 19 May 1979.
42. ‘Imagine how bad business’: ibid.
43. ‘People turn to dance’: BB, 27 October 1979.
44. ‘heavier ballads, rock and R&B’: BB, 15 December 1979.
45. ‘from young black DJs’: BB, 1 July 1978.
46. ‘Jive Talking New York DJs’: BB, 5 May 1979.