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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROCK N ROLL!

1956 - 2026

70 Years of Maximum Rock N Roll!

Years in the making, Rock N Roll officially became part of the cultural zeitgeist in 1956, the first year this perpetually evolving NEW MUSIC produced the most popular song of the year, Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley.

Fellow Rock N Rollers Little Richard, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, Bill Haley And The Comets, vocal group The Platters and British skiffle sensation Lonnie Donegan were also present in the Top 50 Year End Singles Chart of 1956.

This had never happened before in the history of recorded music...

From that point on, Rock N Roll instantly took over the charts, becoming the most dominant genre of popular music for the next 40 plus years.

To celebrate this milestone. The GXO music podcast will, over the coarse of a number of episodes, be exploring and expanding upon the ever evolving nature of Rock N Roll from it's humble acoustic beginnings through numerous other incarnations including, but not limited to, pub rock, punk rock, proto punk, post punk, industrial, disco, electronic, hardcore, rap, EDM, post rock, new rock and ultimately where she currently resides in the hills of contemporary NPR = New Post Rock where nary a guitar is likely to be found.

In the first of the series: "Its...Rock N Roll 01" we find ourselves milling about the ghastly mellow saxophones of 1973, walking Carnaby Street in fashionable London in the Swinging 60's, trolling the Bowery in 1970s East Village, lower Manhattan, frequenting both Max's Kansas City AND CBGBs, dodging THREE of The Big Four while giving up the ghost to the Heavy Metal strains of ragged orchestral cellos and all that Jazz.

All this and MORE...

In the latest installment of the GXO, Generation X Offender music podcast, offending friend and foe alike since 1966

*THE MUSIC

1. "It’s... Rock N Roll" by Robyn Hitchcock 
2. 1974 by Robyn Hitchcock 
3. Lucifer Sam by Pink Floyd
4. Brand New Cadillac by The Clash
5. New Feeling by Talking Heads
6. See No Evil by Television 
7. Max’s Kansas City by Jayne County
8. Transmission by Joy Division 
9. Grinding Halt by The Cure
10. Everybody’s Happy Nowadays by Buzzcocks
11. Everyday I Love You Less And Less by Kaiser Chiefs 
12. Respectable Street by XTC
13. Living On A Thin Line by The Kinks
14. Street In The City by Pete Townshend
15. A Long Way Down by Lloyd Cole
16. I Almost Had A Weakness by Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet 
17. Glass Onion by The Beatles 
18. 1000 Umbrellas by XTC
19. Purple Haze by Kronos Quartet 
20. Prokofiev ~ Romeo & Juliet No. 13 Dance Of The Nights by Mriinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev conducting 

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