rock and roll = alan freed ( rip )

Alan Merrill <aleecat75@...> wrote: Joly, fancy meeting you here.

I just got off stage with
Jon Paris and Steve Holley at
BB King's in NYC.
Sweat is drying as I type this from
my flat.

OK..Fair point. But...What is rock n roll?

Santo and Johnny?
The Flamingoes?
The Drifters?
Elvis?
Beatles?
Stones?
T Rex?
The Sweet?
The Sex Pistols?
Clash?
The Swell Maps?
Dead Boys?
New Kids on the Block?
Nirvana?
Jet?

The words "rock n roll" have been rendered meaningless
by the whore music press.

For me, rock n roll is and always will be
Chuck Berry, The Shirelles, Little Richard and
Don Covay. It's honest and direct.

But that's my opinion.
It's all interpretation.

Malcolm MacLaren hated rock n roll,
and wanted to kill it just for the fun of it, and
he sort of did for a couple of years.
It was kind of like Grot Ent's
on "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin."

I liked Malcolm, the cheeky sod.

--- WWWhatsup <joly@...> wrote:

> Hi Aleecat
>
> Did you know Ari often makes a point that the Slits
> were the real
> musical revolutionaries of punk, because they didn't
> love rock & roll?
>
> joly
>
> At 10:09 PM 7/14/2006, you wrote:
> >Ari was a very cute teenager.
> >I remember taking a taxi with her and her mum
> >(who was dating Spedding at the time) once in 1975
> or '76.
> >We were heading back to central London from a party
> or something.
> >In the cab Ari told me she was going to call her
> band The Slits.
> >I loved it. Punk was just starting.
> >
> >London was great back then.
> >
> >Aleecat
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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