LYRICS ! SOUNDTRACK LYRICS. The History Of Punk - Made In England: The Who, Yardbirds, Kinks & Small Faces. The Who.
Fuck me this is what it was all about. Cool clothes , attitude and a visceral aggressive sound of fury. In 1965 Townsend wrote "My personal motivation onstage is simple. It consists of a hate of every kind of pop music and a hate of everything our group has done...I don't see any career ahead. " 100 Greatest English Rock Artists. The 50 Best British Artists of All Time. Today, after Prince William and Kate Middleton walk down the aisle, one thing’s for certain: the world’s got Britannia on the brain.
A wise man once said—okay, Johnny Rotten once said — “There is no future in England’s dreaming,” and while some of the monarchy’s stale traditions leave us Yanks scratching our heads, we beg to differ. For the past five decades or so, our former oppressors (hey, that whole Revolutionary War thing’s water under the bridge, right?) Have been living in a musical goldmine. The U.S. and the UK have a long history of swapping sounds, and it’s hard to imagine what the state of popular culture would be today without some good, old-fashioned trans-Atlantic cross-pollination.
While all eyes are on the throne, we pay tribute to our 50 favorite British artists—a rock ‘n roll royal family of sorts. 100 Greatest Rock Albums Of The '70s. 100 Greatest Rock/Pop Music Artists Of The 1970's. MusicBrainz - The Open Music Encyclopedia. International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) Portal.