Bubblerock Is Here To Stay! The British Pop Explosion 1970-73: 3CD Capacity Wallet

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RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2020 Shining a searchlight on the lost and often murky world of early 70s British pop. 3CD set with 85 sub-three minute nuggets in four hours of innocent, hook-laden fun. Featuring all of the hits from the Chinnichap writing team hooking up with Mickie Most, who’d just started RAK Plus Machiavellian media maven Jonathan King’s hit-or- bust UK Records. With 60s stalwart John Carter adopting a different pseudonym every month in his search of continued single success and aliases masking the identity of studio-bound production/ songwriting teams, including the pre-10cc Strawberry gang and Teenage Opera auteur Mark Wirtz. And numerous doe-eyed youths that were being groomed by the men in suits for teen pop pin-up status: some of them made it (David Essex, The Bay City Rollers), and some of them didn’t (Simon Turner, Gary Warren, Ricky Wilde). More than a dozen major hits of the era (none of which you’ll hear on the many Classic Rock/ Pop radio stations of 2020) are joined by a huge number of bizarre one-offs: Vivian Stanshall’s idiosyncratic remake of Elvis hit ‘Suspicion’ (promoted by Stanshall and producer Keith Moon dressing up as Nazi SS officers), The Sad’s terrace anthem chant of rampant bisexual promiscuity, ‘My Boy Lollipop’ star Millie giving Nick Drake a ska-pop pasting, Bill Fay making an unlikely stab at pop stardom (with the previously unissued ‘I Can’t Hide’) and Jon Pertwee eyeing a Dr. Who-related novelty hit single. Boasting a 40-page booklet featuring track-by-track annotation, quotes, anecdotes and numerous rare illustrations, ‘Bubblerock Is Here To Stay!’ celebrates the uncelebrated to provide another essential instalment in Grapefruit’s much-acclaimed series of genre boxes. Oh, and we promise not to stick stickers on your paper knickers…