Steele,Tommy Doomsday Rock: The Brits Are Rocking 1 CD

Extensive liner notes, written by UK music critic and biographer David Gibsone. Rare photos and illustrations in the booklet. Tommy Steele was Britain's first pop star. The story of how Tommy fused the new energy of American rock 'n' roll with his own passion for music styles from all over the world is told in the first of a series from Bear Family Productions: 'Doomsday Rock - The Brits Are Rocking'. In the summer of 1956, London was throwing off the grey blanket of post war austerity. New coffee bars and clubs were thronged with young people looking for new fun and entertainment. That summer Tommy Hicks (Steele), Lionel Bart and Mike Pratt [Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)] met at a party in a beatnik commune called the 'Yellow Door. ' Just down the road, under the railway arches, was a caf? called 'The Cave. ' They decided to form a group, and call themselves The Cavemen - and the rest is Pop History. On the CD, Tommy's first chaotic recording session, the surreal Rock With The Cavemen keeps up the pace with his covers of Ritchie Valens' Come On Let's Go and Freddie Cannon's Tallahassie Lassie. More of Tommy's own songs are included - Teenage Party, The Trial, Hey You!, and an instrumental in which Tommy does a fair impression of a drunk, Drunken Guitar, plus many more!

1. Rock Around the Town 2. Giddy-Up Ding Dong 3. Teenage Party (LP Version) 4. The Trial 5. Tallahassee Lassie 6. Give! Give! Give! 7. Build Up 8. Knee Deep in the Blues 9. Rock with the Caveman 10. Take Me Back, Baby 11. Time to Kill 12. Hair-Down Hoe-Down 13. Swaller Tail Coat 14. Drunken Guitar 15. Kaw-Liga 16. Elevator Rock 17. Grandad's Rock 18. I Puts the Lightie on 19. On the Move 20. Cannibal Pot 21. Hollerin' and Screamin' 22. (The Girl with the) Long Black Hair 23. Rebel Rock 24. Two Eyes 25. Hey You 26. Happy Go Lucky Blues 27. Singing the Blues 28. Butterfly 29. Doomsday Rock 30. Razzle Dazzle 31. Come on Let's Go 32. Honky Tonk Blues 33. Young Love 34. You Gotta Go