🎼Since this started like a "Bologna Day"... it's good to realize that still today some bands keep the city tradition 🔥 alive! 🤟👍
Here's a track from my friends Ugly Birds... dirty rock'n'roll blues and of course dirty lyrics in Italian and in #Bologna dialect 😉🎸🔝 #UglyBirds

https://youtu.be/p5KLpyQ3Sh0

🎸 Rock History on Weekend

🎼 The "Rockabillies": Johnny Cash
(February 26, 1932 - September 12, 2003)
Genres: #Rockabilly #RocknRoll #Country #OutlawCountry #Folk #Blues #Gospel

"God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. That's solely in the hands of God."
- #JohnnyCash

👉🎧 Listen here to Johnny Cash 1st album (1957)

🎸 Rock History on Weekend

🎼 The "Rockabillies": Carl Perkins
(April 9, 1932 - January 19, 1998)
Genres: #Rockabilly #RocknRoll #Country

Actually referred as "The King of Rockabilly" #CarlPerkins will be forever remembered for his tremendous signature hit and Rock'n'Roll standard "Blue Suede Shoes".

👉🎧 Listen here to Carl Perkins 1rst album (1957)

🎸 Rock History on Weekend

🎼 The "Rockabillies": Jerry Lee Lewis
(Born September 29, 1935)
Genres: #Rockabilly #RocknRoll

"If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano."
#JerryLeeLewis

Probably the only guy who could set a stage afire 🔥... just with a piano 🎹

His major hits "Great Balls of Fire", "Breathless", "High School Confidential", "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On"

🎸 Rock History on Weekend

🎼 The "Rockabillies": Roy Orbison, The Lonely One
(April 23, 1936 - December 6, 1988)
Genres: #Rockabilly #RocknRoll

#RoyOrbison was one of a kind in the Rockabilly era: he was called "The Caruso of Rock'n'Roll" for his fantastic voice and in times when his fellow music mates were rivaling for masculinity and setting stages afire, Orbison was singing only about loneliness, broken love and vulnerability... plus he hid behind thick sunglasses 😎 for his stagefright!

Also incredible how his 2 major hits belong to the 1980s: his 1964 "Oh, Pretty Woman" was already his biggest number, but it sold millions in the 80s, first after 👉 Van Halen's cover and most notably after being the soundtrack to the iconic movie of the same name with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere!
The other big hit "You Got It" came out only in 1989, released posthumous after Roy's death... and was massive!

🎧Listen to Roy Obison's Top Tracks 👉 here

🎸 Rock History on Weekend

🎼 The "Rockabillies": Eddie Cochran
(October 3, 1938 - April 17, 1960)
Genres: #Rockabilly #RocknRoll #RnB

"Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues."
#EddieCochran

One of the most influential early Rockabilly singers - songwriters. His most famous hits "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody" and "Somethin' Else" became favorite standards for so many future rock and punk bands, from #TheWho to #SexPistols, from #BlueCheer to #StrayCats.

Gone too soon at 21 😔 in a car accident when in England on tour with his friend and fellow rockabilly hero #GeneVincent.

🎧Listen to Eddie Cochran's best 👉 here

🎸 Rock History on Weekend

🎼 The "Rockabillies": Be-Bop-a-Lula
Genres: #Rockabilly #RocknRoll

"I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry*"
#GeneVincent
(February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971)

* Popular American Western actor at the time

Guess he succeeded in being remembered, since he penned and performed in 1956
the most known and representative song of an entire music genre: #BeBopALula 👍🔥

"If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano."
👉 Jerry Lee Lewis
(29 September 1935 -
28 October 2022)

RIP Legend ❤️‍🔥

#JerryLeeLewis #RocknRoll #28October

📌22 March 1963

The Beatles
📀 Please Please Me
#RocknRoll #Pop #MerseyBeat

60 years ago The Beatles from Liverpool, #UK released their debut studio album.

Please Please Me contained covers of Pop and R'n'R standards, plus their first 1962 single "Love Me Do" (where Ringo Starr was replaced by #AndyWhite on drums) and some more tracks penned by Lennon - McCartney, who started here their partnership to become the most successful songwriting duo in music history!
In this album all 4 Beatles members alternate on lead vocals. Producer #GeorgeMartin also appears as musician playing piano and celesta in 2 tracks.

Quite a date in Rock'n'Roll history!

#Beatles:
#JohnLennon
#PaulMcCartney
#GeorgeHarrison
#RingoStarr
#22March

🎧Listen to Please Please Me 👉 here

📌17 April 1964

Rolling Stones
📀 Rolling Stones
#RockBlues #RnB #RocknRoll

60 years ago the Rolling Stones from London, #UK released their self-titled debut album.

The album mainly contained cover songs (#RufusThomas, #ChuckBerry, #BobbyTroup, #JimmyReed, #WillyDixon, #SlimHarpo, #BoDiddley, #BuddyHolly,  Holland-Dozier-Holland), plus the first single written by Jagger/Richards and 2 songs credited to Nanker Phelge, the collective writing pseudonym #RollingStones adopted until 1965.

In this album:
#MickJagger – vocals, tambourine, harmonica, maracas
#KeithRichards – backing vocals, lead and rhythm (6- and 12-string) guitars
#BrianJones – backing vocals, rhythm, lead and slide guitar, harmonica, tambourine whistling
#BillWyman – backing vocals, bass
#CharlieWatts – drums, handclaps

Additional musicians
#AllanClarke, #GrahamNash : backing vocals
#GenePitney – piano
#PhilSpector – percussion, maracas
#IanStewart – organ, piano
#AndrewLoogOldham – producer
#17April

🎧Listen to Rolling Stones
👉 here

📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌25 August 1975

Bruce Springsteen
📀 Born To Run
#Rock #RocknRoll #PopRock #FolkRock #HeartlandRock

50 years ago Bruce Springsteen from New Jersey, #USA released his 3rd studio album.

Springsteen and his band worked almost 2 years on this record. The result was the most iconic album in his career and a huge commercial breakthrough.

In this album:
#BruceSpringsteen – vocals, guitar, harmonica, horn arrangement, co-producer
The E Street Band
#RoyBittan – piano, organ, glockenspiel, harpsichord
#ClarenceClemons – sax
#GarryTallent – bass
#MaxWeinberg, #ErnestCarter – drums
#DannyFederici – organ, glockenspiel
#DavidSancious – piano, keyboards, synthesizer

Additional musicians
#MikeAppel – backing vocals
#StevenVanZandt – backing vocals, horn arrangement
#RandyBrecker – trumpet, horn
#MichaelBrecker, #DavidSanborn – sax
#WayneAndre – trombone
#RichardDavis – double bass
#SukiLahav – violin
#CharlesCalello – string arrangements
#25August

🎧Listen to Born To Run 👉 here

📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌9 May 1966

Paul Revere & The Raiders
📀 Midnight Ride
#GarageRock #PopRock #RocknRoll #PsychedelicRock

60 years ago Paul Revere & The Raiders from Boise, Idaho, #USA released their 5th studio album.

Midnight Ride marked the commercial breakthrough for #PaulRevereAndTheRaiders, the album charted top 10 in the US.

Every song in here is a little gem, special mention to "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" that became in the years a Punk Rock standard.

Undoubtedly one of my favorite 1960s albums ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#MarkLindsay – vocals, percussion, saxophone
#PaulRevere – organ, backing vocals, arranger
#DrakeLevin – guitar, backing vocals
#PhilFangVolk – bass, vocals
#MikeSmittySmith – drums, vocals
#TerryMelcher – arranger, producer
#9May

🎧Listen to Midnight Ride
👉 here