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I'm with you Tony, it's almost heresy to be a baby boomer and admit that 60's music, whatever the band, just ain't your taste. I much prefer to listen to nothing. The nothing being the title that a very arrogant John Lennon gave to music before Elvis. "Before Elvis, there was nothing." In that short scathing sentence he dismissed every genre of music that had gone before.
The Beatles rubbed off on Britain's DJ's too. One broadcaster played Shake, Rattle & Roll by a Brit who called himself Shakin' Stevens. He asked who had the original hit with it. The DJ thought that it was Bill Haley & The Comets, he wouldn't listen to those calling in with Big Joe Turner. You could say that Lennon was to blame, I forgot to say that this was pre-internet days, so looking up definitive answers wasn't so easy, but Lennon or not, the DJ should have known, chances are he didn't even know that Elvis had recorded it.
The Beatles rubbed off on Britain's DJ's too. One broadcaster played Shake, Rattle & Roll by a Brit who called himself Shakin' Stevens. He asked who had the original hit with it. The DJ thought that it was Bill Haley & The Comets, he wouldn't listen to those calling in with Big Joe Turner. You could say that Lennon was to blame, I forgot to say that this was pre-internet days, so looking up definitive answers wasn't so easy, but Lennon or not, the DJ should have known, chances are he didn't even know that Elvis had recorded it.