Tipperary-native pens rock ‘n’ roll music lovers’ bible
Having released my first book, All Together Now, We Love the Beatles, in 2015, I have now followed up with We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock Tonight!
Reviewed in the book are the songs that gave life to rock 'n' roll and shaped it into the most vital music of our time. From Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock in 1955 to the Beatles Get Back in 1969, it offers a rare insight into the impact of the top ten singles that defined rock 'n' roll during the 50s and 60s.
From the US, the rockabilly rhymes of Elvis Presley, Eddie Copchran, Gene Vincent, Bill Haley, Gerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly; the soulful rhythm 'n' blues of Little Richard, Sam Cooke, and Ray Charles, the great sounds of the Beach Boy, the
Righteous Brothers, the Ronettes and the Crystals.
Country stars Jim Reeves, Hank Locklin, Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline, music legends Rory Orbinson and Bob Dylan, the UK’s first stars Tommy Steele, Billy Fury and Cliff Richard.
Those were followed by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who, Herman's Hermits, The Kinks and the Hollies. And from Irealnd, showband star Brendan Bowyer, Dickie Rock, Joe Dolan, Butch Moore, Brendan O'Brien, billy Brown and Eileen Reid.
With over 291 top ten songs reviewed from three countries, USA, UK and Ireland, the book also details record label, writers, chart positions and the number of weeks at number one.
The introduction also gives great insight into the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll.
Most readable and often highly entertaining, the prose is lively and uses quotations inventively as n a narrative technique.
To say the book is entertaining is not to underrate its informative credentials.
The book will be launched in The Loft Bar, Dirty Nellie's, Bunratty, county Clare on Saturday, November 18 at 8pm.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Seamus Moore was born in Thurles in 1946.
In his early twenties, at the height of the showband scene, he travelled the county playing the trombone, first with the Jack Hanley Showband from Templemore and later with the Enniskillen-based The Skyrockets. Forty years on, Seamus shared his love of music, particularly from the sixties (especially the Beatles), presenting music programmes on local radio.
The research required for the radio shoes motivated Seamus to write his first book, All Together Now, We Love the Beatles, in 2015. He has now followed-up with We’re Gonna Roack Around the Clock Tonight, The Story Behind the Top Ten Chart Hits in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the USA.