London Rock And Roll Show

Image Not Available Starring: Bo Diddley, Screaming Lord Sutch Dvd Release: 20th March, 2006 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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The London Rock & Roll Show was a 1973 British -produced concert film chronicling a Rock & Roll Revival concert held at Wembley Stadium in London, England in August 1972. From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, many rock & roll performers from the 1950s experienced major career revivals due to a temporary upswing of interest in their form of music. The Revival was marked by a series of major concerts in the United States & also spread to Europe where events such as the Wembley concert attracted thousands of fans who came out to see the performers behind the music. London Rock & Roll Show begins with excerpts from numerous warm-up performers shown singing either covers of 1950s hits, or original tunes, including a performance by Screaming Lord Sutch that threatens to end the concert prematurely when he brings a stripper on stage. The main concert segment begins with Bo Diddley & continues with a string of other major performers including Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard & Bill Haley & His Comets.

Bo Diddley, The Originator, is an influential American blues singer, songwriter & guitarist. He was born Ellas Bates & later took the name Ellas McDaniel, after his adoptive mother, Gussie McDaniel. He adopted the stage name Bo Diddley, which is probably a southern black slang phrase meaning nothing at all, as in he aint bo diddley. Another source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer. He was given a guitar by his sister as a youth, but also took violin lessons. He was inspired to become a blues artist by seeing John Lee Hooker. He is best known for the Bo Diddley beat, a rhumba -based beat also influenced by what is known as hambone, a style used by street performers who play out the beat by slapping & patting their arms, legs, chest & cheeks while chanting rhymes. shave n a haircut - two bits. The beat has been used by many other artists, notable Johnny Otis on Willie & the Hand Jive, which is more about hambone than it is a direct copy of Bo Diddley & Buddy Holly s Not Fade Away as well as more obscure numbers such as Callin All Cows by the Blues Rockers. Posters Of Bo Diddley

Editors Choice: Legends Of Rock N Roll, London Rock And Roll Show, View DVDology

Screaming Lord Sutch was a British politician, musician & maverick. He was born David Edward Sutch on November 10, 1940. In the 1960s, inspired by one of his favourite rocknroll stars, Screamin Jay Hawkins, he changed his name by deed poll to Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow, despite the fact that he had no connection with the peerage. Following a successful career as an early-60s pop music attraction, it became customary for the UK press & citizens to refer to him as Screaming Lord Sutch, or simply Lord Sutch. He founded the Official Monster Raving Loony Party in 1983 & fought the Bermondsey byelection. In his career he contested over 40 elections, rarely threatening the major party candidates, but often getting a respectable number of votes. He was an easily recognisable figure at election counts due to his flamboyant clothes. It was shortly after he polled several hundred votes in Margaret Thatcher s Finchley constituency in 1983 that the deposit paid by candidates was raised from £150 to £500.

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