History 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mick Jagger, Royal Variety Performance, Pete Townshend
13 Dec 2016
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HISTORY 2134 CLASS NOTES FINAL EXAM
normal student by day........
rock star by night.........
oh my god!!!! Im just a normal person!!!! Let me
live my life!!!!
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#1: THE ROOTS OF THE BRITISH INVASION
The Beatles at JFK – Beginning of British Invasion
- February 7, 1964 – Beatles arrive to huge fan greeting in America
o Over 5000 fans showed up to greet them
o 200 + members of press
- Ed Sullivan Show – 73 million viewers
- British invasion – transition to harder/louder rock music
- Rock in US: emerged against abundance
- Rock in UK: emerged against decline (London was the economic capital of world in 19th century)
Post War England and the Roots of British Rock n Roll
- Baby boomers were born into war that largely affected them
o Tangible impacts – cities were destroyed
- Both World Wars weakened British empire
- Damaged economy and industry
- Continued osterity after the war (DIFFERENT than US abundance)
- Stratified class structure in UK – important to them
- Under all this tension rock emerged
American Servicemen in England
- American presence in WWII – brought over music/films
- Inundated by US culture **start the expansion
- All arriving at once (blues, rock, R&B) in Britain
o Because of the omnipresence, what took decades un US (evolution of rock) happened in
5 years in UK
Skiffle Music – 1954 – 1958 (by 1960 this was rock)
- Country, folk, rock music
- Originally performed by 4 black, impoverished men
- E.g. house parties – fees – Skiffle parties
Lonnie Donegan
- Started movement that British youth embraced (brought Skiffle music to UK)
- Played early American folk ballads
- Rock Island Line – hit song
o Traditional American railroad song
o Made Skiffle music take off
The Beatles
- Demonstrate how tensions in Britain laid itself out
- Product of postwar Britain
- Individual stories:
- John Lennon: both parents abandoned him
o Dad left, o ouldt ope o he o, theefoe he as aised his olde siste
o Mom came back into his life in high school
o 1958: she was killed by a drunk cop in a car
- Ringo Starr: impoverished lifestyle
o Poor health – bleak future with no opportunities in lower class
- Paul McCartney: stable
o But at 14 his mom died of ovarian cancer
o Began to rebel – persona of a rocker
- George Harrison: good upbringing
o Rebelled for the sake of it
o Met Paul at Liverpool
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- ALL tried to emulate Skiffle music
- John Lennon – made his own band: The Quarr Me
o McCartney and Harrison joined
- 1959: Skiffle band becoming more rock
o They saw Buddy Holly and were inspired
o The Quarry Men → The Moondogs → The Beatles (like The Crickets)
- Went to Hamburg, Germany
o Four man format
- End of 1960 – returned to Liverpool – founded at Cavern Club by Brian Epstein
- Initially, they were doing cover songs
o More intensity born out of their desperation – music as their way out (Rock n Roll
Music)
- 1962: began to record their own music
o Please Please Me – first UK hit
o Representative of early Beatles sound
o Vocal influence of Little Richard
o Asexual adolescent song
Beatlemania Takes Off
- Brian Epstein – manager – helps them (came from a family of money and elite)
o Connections to UK elite
o Helped Beatles promote a clean image (clean rocker persona)
o Able to gain press for Beatles
o “ee as a outlet fo Bitais poles
▪ Music could be seen as threatening to social structures in UK – society in flux –
Beatles having to navigate through this
- The Royal Variety Show: 1963
o Estalished theseles as a solutio to UKs oes
o Joh Leo epeseted the lass diisio hee: Cheap seats; lap ou hads...the
rest – shake ou jeel
The Rolling Stones
- Grittier sound than the Beatles
- Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Brian Jones
- The Ealing Club – epicenter of blues in London
o Where Keith Richards and Mick Jagger really got introduced to the music
- Were named after a Muddy Waters song
- Sexual, rebellious (opposite of Beatles)
- Deliberately cultivated image that conformed to their grittier sound
o Reflective of their roots
- 1964: released their first album – paid tribute to blues and R&B
- I aa e ou Ma – by Lennon/McCartney – performed by the Stones though
The Animals
- From Newcastle-on-Tyne
- Transnational – played American blues and R&B so well that NY songwriters wrote songs
specifically for them – We’ve Gotta Get Out of this Place
- Name came from wild performances
- Working class image
- Ba let e take ou hoe – inspired by Bob Dylan
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Document Summary
History 2134 class notes final exam normal student by day rock star by night oh my god!!!! The beatles at jfk beginning of british invasion. February 7, 1964 beatles arrive to huge fan greeting in america: over 5000 fans showed up to greet them, 200 + members of press. British invasion transition to harder/louder rock music. Rock in uk: emerged against decline (london was the economic capital of world in 19th century) Post war england and the roots of british rock n roll. Baby boomers were born into war that largely affected them: tangible impacts cities were destroyed. Continued osterity after the war (different than us abundance) Stratified class structure in uk important to them. American presence in wwii brought over music/films. All arriving at once (blues, rock, r&b) in britain: because of the omnipresence, what took decades un us (evolution of rock) happened in. Skiffle music 1954 1958 (by 1960 this was rock)
