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They were six fine English boys Who knew each other in Birmingham They bought a drum and guitar Started a rock-roll band. * —Randy Newman, “The Story of a Rock and Roll Band.” ...England has the music scene that is so far advanced from anything here.
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They were six fine English boys Who knew each other in Birmingham They bought a drum and guitar Started a rock-roll band. *
—Randy Newman, “The Story of a Rock and Roll Band.”
...England has the music scene that is so far advanced from anything here. America doesn’t have a music scene. Whenever America invents a kind of music, it always comes from the blacks. And the Americans turn their backs on it until it goes over to England and then an English band brings it back to them.
—Stewart Copeland of the Police (CREEM Feb. ’80)
Day 8,633—America held hostage to the British rock scene. Ever since the Ayatollah McCartney and his radical band forcibly occupied the American charts in 1964 the confused nation has been unable to rid itself of the British terror. Although the invaders released America’s black population and covered all of their songs, freedom is still nowhere in sight for America’s whites. Now, as the crisis enters its 16th year...
And Johnny played little violin And Bobby Joe played the big violin The one that stands on the floor They were all in the rock-roll band.