Various Artists - Riding The Rock Machine: British Seventies Classic Rock (Clamshell) [CD]

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• Long-established as a hugely popular radio format, the Classic Rock sound was established – though not codified and canonised until some while later – in the Seventies, when numerous British bands from a pop or blues-based background pioneered a muscular, riff-based sound that dominated American FM airwaves and led the most successful practitioners to fame, fortune and all manner of related excess.

• But although there are innumerable radio stations now devoted to the baby boomer sounds of Classic Rock, their innately conservative, playlist-based nature means that the same heavyweight tunes are endlessly recycled: the casual listener could be forgiven for thinking that the careers of major bands like Thin Lizzy and The Who didn't extend beyond 'Whiskey In The Jar', 'The Boys Are Back In Town' and 'Won't Get Fooled Again'.

• So allow the Grapefruit label to break down the walls of stultifying retroactive conservatism with an alternative look at the Classic Rock genre. Riding The Rock Machine features many of the era's headline names (Lizzy and The 'Oo, but also The Moody Blues, Free, Status Quo, Jethro Tull, Procol Harum, ELP, ELO, Uriah Heep etc) in slightly less familiar settings as well as some Classic Rock-friendly performances from acts who walked the walk and talked the talk but never quite received the same level of acclaim as the brand leaders.

• Housed in a no-expense-spared clamshell box with a lavishly annotated and illustrated 40-page booklet, Riding The Rock Machine features four hours of vintage sounds from British rock's golden age as Grapefruit turns it up to eleven and goes where other labels fear to tread in search of the perfect riff. As our opening track proclaims, Long Live Rock'n'Roll!

Long Live Rock'n'roll - Rainbow

Feels Like The First Time u2013 Foreigner

Street Life u2013 Roxy Music

Easy Livin' u2013 Uriah Heep

This Flight Tonight - Nazareth

Maid In Heaven u2013 Be-Bop Deluxe

I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band) u2013 The Moody Blues

Wishing Well - Free

Devil's Answer (Us Album Version) u2013 Atomic Rooster

I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You u2013 The Alan Parsons Project

Out Of Your Head - Man

In My Own Time - Family

Slow Ride (Single Version) u2013 Foghat

My Friend Peter - Strawbs

Get My Rocks Off u2013 Dana Gillespie

Catch You On The Rebop u2013 Spencer Davis Group

Quark, Strangeness And Charm u2013 Hawkwind

New York Groove - Hello

I Can't Explain (Album Version) u2013 Yvonne Elliman

Ace Supreme (Single Version) u2013 Silverhead

Jailbreak u2013 Thin Lizzy

Cindy Incidentally - Faces

Mystery Song (Album Version) u2013 Status Quo

Can't Live Without It u2013 Tucky Buzzard

Robert's Box u2013 Procol Harum

U.H.F. - Curved Air

Blowing A Million u2013 National Flag

Standing In The Road u2013 Blackfoot Sue

Baby I Need - Magnum*

Monster In Paradise u2013 Hard Stuff

Back To The Wall u2013medicine Head

Showdown u2013 Electric Light Orchestra

Black Sheep Of The Family u2013 Fat Mattress

Success Story u2013 The Who

Momma's Boy u2013 City Boy

Life Is A Minestrone (Album Version) - 10cc

Black Cloud - Trapeze

The 1959 Rock'n'roll Bop - Duffy

Dream Kid u2013 Sutherland Brothers & Quiver

Hold Out Your Hand u2013 Chris Squire

Hoodlum Fun - Rococo

Got A Bad Leg u2013 Smokestack Crumble

Spirits In The Night u2013 Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Only After Dark u2013 Mick Ronson

Fever u2013 The Winkies*

The Boston Tea Party u2013 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Straddle - Strider

Ready For Love/After Lights u2013 Mott The Hoople

Bungle In The Jungle u2013 Jethro Tull

Move It - Stray

My Oh My (Single Version) u2013 Sad Cafe

Clever Fool u2013 Agnes Strange

Ice Cold Dick - Bullfrog*

Jack O'lantern u2013 Babe Ruth

She's Ridin' The Rock Machine (Single Version) - Fancy

Shoelace - Maggot*

God Gave Rock And Roll To You u2013 Argent

Action (Single Version) - Sweet

Lucky Man u2013 Emerson Lake & Palmer

• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 5013929188808

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