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The Beatles – Rock 'N' Roll Music (VG/VG) – 2xLP, AU 1976
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Rock 'N' Roll Music is an LP by The Beatles from 1976 released on the Parlophone label.
About this album
Rock 'N' Roll Music spotlights The Beatles’ most muscular early recordings, drawing together the group’s decisive takes on 1950s rock ’n’ roll and rhythm and blues. Issued as a 1976 compilation, it foregrounds the band’s raw live-wire energy rather than their later studio sophistication, with performances such as Twist and Shout, Long Tall Sally and Roll Over Beethoven showing how fully they could absorb and reinvent American rock traditions. The set underlined the Beatles’ roots in guitar-driven club music and reminded listeners that their early catalogue was already built on urgency, wit and sheer attack. As a compilation, it works less as a career survey than as a focused celebration of their hardest-rocking side.
Genre: Pop & Rock
Review
AllMusic rating:AllMusic users:Artist: The BeatlesLabel: Parlophone – PCSP 719Format: LP, Compilation, StereoUnits: 2Country: AustraliaReleased: 1976Genre: Pop & RockStyle: Beat, Rock & RollA1 Twist And Shout
A2 I Saw Her Standing There
A3 You Can'T Do That
A4 I Wanna Be Your Man
A5 I Call Your Name
A6 Boys
A7 Long Tall Sally
B1 Rock 'N' Roll Music
B2 Slow Down
B3 Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey
B4 Money (That'S What I Want)
B5 Bad Boy
B6 Matchbox
B7 Roll Over Beethoven
C1 Dizzy Miss Lizzy
C2 Anytime At All
C3 Drive My Car
C4 Everybody'S Trying To Be My Baby
C5 The Night Before
C6 I'M Down
C7 Revolution
D1 Back In The U.S.S.R.
D2 Helter Skelter
D3 Taxman
D4 Got To Get You Into My Life
D5 Hey Bulldog
D6 Birthday
D7 Get Back