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Why Britain Rocked
- How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sharkey
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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Why Britain Rocked
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Publisher's Summary
The story goes that under the influence of blues and rock and roll, Britain suddenly started making spectacularly great music in the 1960s like some clever, quick-learning cultural satellite of America. But Britain’s mid-20th-century pop music explosion didn’t happen from a standing start.
The reasons, both dazzling and multifaceted, appear to lie deeper than those legendary deliveries of blues records to Liverpool’s port and the legacy of music halls. Featuring new discoveries and original insights, Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World argues that the Beatles’ arrival, which stunned the world, really shouldn’t have been surprising at all.
From the Celts, Henry VIII, and the Quakers to Ira Aldridge and Paul Robeson, Why Britain Rocked uncovers the unique events and unexpected influences that encouraged British pop to be glorious, crazy, luminous, joyous, profound, melancholic, ferocious, anarchic, witty, smart, and wonderful in all its ways.