 |
 |
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
Jon Savage, Mute Records, March 2001
"I USED TO buy my records in a shop in Trafalgar Road, and the man there was quite avant-garde for his day. Whenever I bought one of these rock'n roll records, he'd say: "Have you heard the original? Have you heard ‘Hound Dog’, by Willie Mae Thornton?" And I'd say "No", and he'd get it in for me. And Earl Bostic! I still love Earl Bostic. He was light years ahead of his time. And Little Walter. I was listening to those people in '57. A lot of people in '57 didn't even know what rock'n roll was."
– Marty Wilde, in Jon Savage's "The Blackheath Jungle" (Mojo February 1995)
Total word count of piece: 1,585
To continue reading the complete article, login or subscribe below and get instant access to this and the many thousands of other articles in the Rock's Backpages archive.
|
Becoming a member is cheap and easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library. Subscribe and become a member... Or buy a Day Pass to the RBP library. Click here for University and other group subscriptions. |
Login Login via your home institution
Login via your library If your local library has signed up with Rocksbackpages, please enter your card number below: |
back to LIST OF ARTICLES ABOUT RECORD COMPANIES, LABELS ETC.
back to LIST OF ARTICLES BY JON SAVAGE
back to LIBRARY
If you are interested in the syndication of this or any other article on Rock's Backpages, please email us.
|
||||||
 |
||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Magazine Archive | About Us | Press Room | Your Account | Home