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The Yardbirds performance in ' Blow Up' film (1965) - VIDEO
aving a Rave Up with the Yardbirds, or simply Having a Rave Up, is the second American album by the English rock group the Yardbirds. It was released in November 1965, eight months after Jeff Beck replaced Eric Clapton on guitar. It includes songs with both guitarists and reflects the group's blues rock roots and their early experimentation with psychedelic and hard rock. The title refers to the driving "rave up" arrangement the band used in several of their songs.
The album contains some live recordings from March 1964 when Clapton was the lead guitarist, and which first appeared on the band's British debut album, Five Live Yardbirds, which was not issued in the United States. The songs with Beck were recorded in the studio in the months after he joined the group in March 1965. These include several charting singles and introduced "The Train Kept A-Rollin'", one of the Yardbirds' most copied arrangements. Although most were not written by the group, the songs became a fixture of the group's concert repertoire and continued to be performed after Jimmy Page replaced Beck.
Next to their 1967 Greatest Hits collection, Having a Rave Up is the Yardbirds' highest-charting album in the US and has remained in print longer than others in the band's catalogue. The album continues to be reissued, often with bonus material, such as the next single "Shapes of Things", demo recordings for their follow-up album, and "Stroll On", featuring dual lead guitar by Beck and Page, from the Blow-Up soundtrack. Several music critics have cited the album's influence, particularly on hard rock guitar.
sabato 1 agosto 2026
Punks, Goths & Mods on Irish TV, 1983 - VIDEO
Expressing individuality through identifying with a group. Discussing the youth subcultures of Dublin.
Gay Byrne introduces representatives from various Dublin “gangs” to find out why they identify with specific groups and dress the way they do.
Punks, Mods, Rockers, Teds, Greasers, Futuristics, New Romantics, Blitz Kids, Skinheads, Rudie Skinheads, Boot Boys, Hells Angels, Bikers and Ska Boys.
The guest are 20 year old Crumlin punk Donnacha McDonagh, 19 year old Drimnagh punk Siobhán Corrigan, 20 year old fashion student John Fiddler from Killiney, and 20 year old mod Gerard Quinn from Fatima Mansions.
For Donnacha, Punk is;
"A rebellion against the old system, the system that we were born into and are supposed to live by but we don’t agree with today’s system so we rebel against it in our appearance, the way we dress and the way we think."
Donnacha describes on the misperceptions of punks by people who don’t understand them.
For Siobhán Corrigan, she dresses the way she does because she enjoys it and she likes to be different.
John Fiddler does not identify with any specific group.
"I wouldn’t put myself in any category at all. I’m just quite a normal person really."
Gerard Quinn describes his clean-cut image and the lifestyle of a mod.
Also on the panel is Dr Edward de Bono who does not see how these young people are that different to others as for the most part they still identify with a specific group. He says there is a dichotomy that exists between rebellion as a form of individuality or as a form of belonging to a group.
This episode of ‘The Late Late Show’ was broadcast on 29 January 1983. The presenter is Gay Byrne.
2 TONE Records - Behind The Scenes BBC Music (1980 VIDEO)
"These earnest young Midlands entrepreneurs are the epitome of free enterprise in Margaret Thatcher's brave new Britain" - Tony Wilkinson.
Tony Wilkinson reports on the phenomenal rise of a small independent record label in Coventry, 2 Tone. The label is at the heart of the second wave of ska music, promoting groups like The Selecter and The Specials, bands who blend Jamaican rocksteady, ska and reggae with British punk.
Wilkinson chats to Jerry Dammers - keyboard player in The Specials and 2 Tone founder - about the origin of both the label and the music, and singer Neville Staple about his vocal style and anti-violence stance.
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 22 May, 1980.
Skinhead... A Message to You (London, 90s) - SHORT PIECE VIDEO
Short piece from the 90s, filmed in London.
Graduate (mod era pre-Tears for fears) first TV appearance 1978 - VIDEO
Graduate were an English new wave and mod group formed in 1978, in Bath, England. They were only very mildly successful, and broke up by 1981. They are today best known as being the initial recording vehicle for future Tears for Fears members Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.
Trisomie 21 - The Last Song (80s post punk, dark wave, LYRICS & VIDEO)
I Trisomie 21 sono un gruppo dark wave / cold wave francese fondato da due fratelli a Denain e questa è The Last Song. Le riprese del video invece si riferiscono al club Chabiens 777 e girate nel 1986. Mi verrebbe da dire che il Chambien 777 era l' Ibiza gothica degli anni 80.
Trisomie 21 The Last Song TESTO LYRICS:
Can't remember feeling real
And the candle burning bright
Visions of love and me
An another face of the world
Beyond your eyes forever moonlight
I look into your eyes
But i pretend, there's two ways
You should hear the sound of the words
Breaking this feeling
Candle burning bright
(sampled laugh of a woman)
I see you and me passion
When you tell me what a wonderful world
Loving me, i swear
You just can fall
Into my arms
Into my arms
But i can't great remember feeling real
