The Story
91 great tracks and three great chords! Four-hour, 3CD anthology of hard-edged British R&B from the genre's pivotal year, featuring hit singles, key album tracks, cult classics, and some fabulous previously unreleased recordings. While 1963 belonged to the Merseyside-led beat boom, the following year saw the emergence of homegrown R&B. Led by The Rolling Stones, The Pretty Things, The Yardbirds, and Manfred Mann would also come to prominence, but many other putative king bees - The Artwoods, Downliners Sect, early Ronnie Wood outfit The Birds - would have to settle for a more localised audience. As a new wave of acne-scarred teenage degenerates clambered out of the primordial R&B soup, the R&B revolution spread throughout the land: Newcastle likely lads The Animals topped the charts and Birmingham outfit The Spencer Davis Group also made early commercial progress. The emphasis on ‘Having A Rave-Up! - The British R&B Sounds of 1964’ is on what would subsequently be labelled as garage R&B/punk, with the bigger names joined by such equally artless hopefuls as The Fairies, The Cops 'n' Robbers, The Authentics, and The Primitives.
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91 great tracks and three great chords! Four-hour, 3CD anthology of hard-edged British R&B from the genre's pivotal year, featuring hit singles, key album tracks, cult classics, and some fabulous previously unreleased recordings. While 1963 belonged to the Merseyside-led beat boom, the following year saw the emergence of homegrown R&B. Led by The Rolling Stones, The Pretty Things, The Yardbirds, and Manfred Mann would also come to prominence, but many other putative king bees - The Artwoods, Downliners Sect, early Ronnie Wood outfit The Birds - would have to settle for a more localised audience. As a new wave of acne-scarred teenage degenerates clambered out of the primordial R&B soup, the R&B revolution spread throughout the land: Newcastle likely lads The Animals topped the charts and Birmingham outfit The Spencer Davis Group also made early commercial progress. The emphasis on ‘Having A Rave-Up! - The British R&B Sounds of 1964’ is on what would subsequently be labelled as garage R&B/punk, with the bigger names joined by such equally artless hopefuls as The Fairies, The Cops 'n' Robbers, The Authentics, and The Primitives.
