I recognise this:
After all, as Chuck Berry noted, rock’n’roll’s not hard: it’s got a backbeat, you can’t lose it, any old time you choose it.
It’s a piece ’bout how no one plays rock and roll any more. But that last line there. I recognise that. It happens sometimes. You know what the last line is going to be. Actually, Miles Kington used to say that once you’ve got the last line the rest of the piece writes itself. So everything just builds to that.
You also erm and ahhh a bit about exactly how it’s going to be put and threaten righteous violence upon any sub who even dreams of changing it and so on. But the nub, the idea is there even as you pitch the concept to an editor. And you hug that line to your chest, it’s proper squeal for piggy stuff. “I know how it’s going to e e end, doo de doo doo” etc as you dance around the keyboard.
OK, perhaps not quite that much outwardly expressed joy but you get the idea.
That was an interesting article. Personally I think that music streaming will prove to have been a huge factor regarding which styles of music stay popular because the whole musical time scale is now available to everyone. This means that the brief period when a particular song was in the charts is now irrelevant. The radio playlist gatekeepers are also irrelevant. If you like Rock N Roll you can make yourself a playlist of your favourites, put it on enhanced shuffle and Spotify will play it while inserting random similar sounding tracks. There is a pre Elvis version of Hound Dog by an artist called Big Mamna Thornton that I really like. I can’t imagine that I would ever have become aware of it without Spotify.
Big Mama Thorton’s version at least makes sense. Elvis – great tune, but lyrics with missed out and mispronounced words never made sense
It’s Lieber and Stoller. The doyens of rock and roll writers.
There’s been a few pieces in this place which built a narrative, and frustration, and despair and then “Fuck ’em, vote leave”
What the fuck are you on about?