Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - This Ain’t No Party?! Edition Part 2
HEY! HO! LET’S GO!! Is this chant: (a) a movement of disaffected hipsters, (b) walkup music for a baseball player, or (c) a really catchy bop? How about all of the above?
The legendary New York nightclub CBGB was the birthplace of punk. But it was also the future of pop: the Ramones, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Blondie. To varying degrees, these acts either became hitmakers, tried to reshape their music for the charts, or influenced generations of future multiplatinum stars.
Honestly? Their music was pretty infectious from the jump, even if it was too advanced for the ’70s hit parade. The…
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