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The Act You’ve Known For All These Years: The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper

ALL ENTERTAINMENT HAS AN EXISTENTIAL dimension: all successful performances imply a life-style and a sense of values, a sub-structure of assumptions upon which the performer plays his part. The Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night, successfully crystallised the personalities that had made them the biggest successes in the history of show business: their surreal sense of humour, their sophisticated naïveté, and their four way plug-in personality – clever John, cuddly man in the street Ringo, sardonic George, and precocious cherubic Paul. The Beatles' personalities worked well in the movie since their rather repressed alienation from the feverish glamour of the...

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Monterey Pops! An International Pop Festival

Reporting for Newsweek took me to Monterey. I'd gone to work for Newsweekright out of college in 1965 – I was a reporter in the London bureau whenRubber Soul came out, Carnaby Street was jumping, and the Who were at the Marquee. In January '67, just as the '60s musical-social ball was bouncing westward, Newsweek moved me to San Francisco. I arrived in time for the Human Be-In and soon was hanging out at the Avalon and Fillmore, interviewing Jerry and Janis, and covering student demonstrations in Berkeley. In May I began to hear rumours of a huge hippie festival: all the best new bands...

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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

WHILE ENGLAND was paving the way for mass acceptance of white interpretations of classic blues material with bands like the Yardbirds and Bluesbreakers and talented individuals of the caliber of Clapton, Beck and Page, America produced two notable bands working in the same genre – the Al Kooper / Danny Kalb-led Blues Project and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The latter was not as prone as most to the inevitable "can a white man play the blues?" question (the issue being emotional honesty rather than technical ability), having honed their craft in Chicago’s South Side blues clubs and at the...

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Folk, Rock & Other Four-Letter Words

THERE HAS BEEN a great increase recently in the number of popular artists whose songs are influenced by or taken from American folk music–both traditional and modern. The paranoiac need of modern man for a label for anything that comes near him resulted, in this case, in the term "folk-rock" to signify pop music with strong folk influences. Originally "folk-rock" meant pop music that used actual folk material; later, anything folk-influenced that retained a heavy beat, and still later, anything having anything to do with folk that happened to sell in the pop market. The term "folk-rock" is a silly...

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Curtis Mayfield

(1942 – 1999) As a songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and record-label owner, Curtis Mayfield was a significant force in shaping the Soul music of the 60s and 70s. Among his achievements, he is credited as a pioneer in bringing a social consciousness to Soul music, creating music that reflected the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s; his song “People, Get Ready” in particular was embraced as something of an anthem for the movement. Born in Chicago and raised in the city’s massive Cabrini-Green housing project, Mayfield started singing in his grandmother's Traveling Soul Spiritualists' Church at age 7. He picked up...

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New York: Plug in to the Nerve-ends of the Naked City

In downtown Manhattan the rock 'n' roll war rages on as potential crown princes of Punkdom battle for recognition.. NICK KENT interprets the action IN MANHATTAN you're either uptown or down town and there's really no halfway house to dissolve into while in transit. You case your bearings purely on instinct as the yellow cab careers awkwardly down, down, down from the uptown three-star 51st and 3rd Mafioso hotel (ageing Hawaiian bellboys/the overbearing aroma of styrofoam in the Coffee Shop/the tight-lipped Italianate retired hit-man of a receptionist who always makes you wait for the key, nodding suspiciously to the grease-ball house...

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Funk Asserts Itself

Grades: High

Subjects: Social Studies/History

Activities: Charts and Graphs, Textual Analysis, Visual Analysis

Topics: Black History, Economics, Geography, Migration

How did 1970s Funk respond to African-American life in the decade following the Civil Rights movement?

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Seventies Soul: The Soundtrack of Turbulent Times

Grades: High

Subjects: General Music, Social Studies/History

Activities: Gallery Walk, Musical Analysis, Textual Analysis, Think-Pair-Share

Topics: Black History, Civics and Politics, Social Justice Movements, War

How did changes in the Soul music of the early 1970s reflect broader shifts in American society during that time?

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Leiber And Stoller : The Blues (1950-1953) & The Rock ‘n’ Roll Years

JERRY LEIBER AND MIKE STOLLER. They rank alongside Berry as rock ‘n’ roll’s wittiest composers and their influence as record producers has been immeasurable. As writers they were the first to bring satire and a social conscience to rock; as producers they ushered out the simplicity of an era in which groups were pulled off the streets to "doo-wop" and "doo-wah" into a microphone for three minutes. From these primitive beginnings to monaural overdubbing, the very first eight-track studios and on into the realms of the technological future-shock, Leiber and Stoller have directed all the phases of post-war record production....

RRFF Interviews Buddy Guy and James Hetfield

Continuing a series of original interviews, which so far have included such luminaries as Bonnie Raitt, Bono, and Graham Nash, the Foundation spoke with James Hetfield of Metallica and renowned Blues musician Buddy Guy. Both offered insights on their careers, the influence of Rock and Roll in their lives, and many other topics. Highlights of Hetfield's interview included his reflections on the his first rehearsal space: "I think a lot of great things happen in the garage; a lot of good things start there. It's this Microsoft computer kind of thing, which started in a garage. Guys who are football players -- I think, where were they working out first? Maybe in their garage. Great things can happen there." Among other subjects, Buddy Guy spoke about his early recording experiences and remarked on the major advances in technology. "At Chess [Records], you would go play something, and when they played it back you'd go use the bathroom for 10 minutes. You’d come back out, you’d hear it, you knew it was you. Now there's so much technology. Now, when I was down in Nashville on my last session, I came out and I said, 'Who's that?' 'Oh, that's you, you just did that.'" The Foundation looks forward to providing content from these and other original interviews throughout the curriculum.

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article: The Act You’ve Known For All These Years: The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper

article: Monterey Pops! An International Pop Festival

article: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

article: Folk, Rock & Other Four-Letter Words

people: Curtis Mayfield

article: New York: Plug in to the Nerve-ends of the Naked City

lesson: Funk Asserts Itself

lesson: Seventies Soul: The Soundtrack of Turbulent Times

article: Leiber And Stoller : The Blues (1950-1953) & The Rock ‘n’ Roll Years