Get Ready to ROCK! » The Sixties https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:41:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Album review : THE LOVIN SPOONFUL – What A Day For A Daydream – The Complete Recordings 1965-69 (7CD Boxset) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2026/03/album-review-the-lovin-spoonful-what-a-day-for-a-daydream-the-complete-recordings-1965-69-7cd-boxset/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2026/03/album-review-the-lovin-spoonful-what-a-day-for-a-daydream-the-complete-recordings-1965-69-7cd-boxset/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:32:09 +0000 brianmc https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=107765 THE 150 LOVIN SPOONFUL BoxsetCherry Red [Release date: 27.03.26] The Lovin Spoonful lineup – John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Joe Butler and Steve Boone – coalesced in New York’s folk music hub, Greenwich Village in 1964, honing their sound in the city’s nightclubs before they … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2026/03/album-review-the-lovin-spoonful-what-a-day-for-a-daydream-the-complete-recordings-1965-69-7cd-boxset/feed/ 0 Album review : This Can’t Be Today – American Psychedelia and The Paisley Underground 1977-88 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2026/02/album-review-this-cant-be-today-american-psychedelia-and-the-paisley-underground-1977-88/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2026/02/album-review-this-cant-be-today-american-psychedelia-and-the-paisley-underground-1977-88/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:32:32 +0000 brianmc https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=107043 This Can’t Be Today – American Psychedelia and The Paisley Underground 1977-88Cherry Red [Release date : 13.02.26] In the sixties, the term “Underground Music” bubbled up to the surface. It became associated with the counterculture and psychedelia, as teens and twenties began to find their voice, in life and in music, … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2026/02/album-review-this-cant-be-today-american-psychedelia-and-the-paisley-underground-1977-88/feed/ 0 Album review : FREDDIE AND THE DREAMERS – You Were Made For Me, The Complete Recordings, 1963-70 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2026/01/album-review-freddie-and-the-dreamers-you-were-made-for-me-the-complete-recordings-1963-70/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2026/01/album-review-freddie-and-the-dreamers-you-were-made-for-me-the-complete-recordings-1963-70/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:07:15 +0000 brianmc https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=106846 freddie 150 dreamers coverCherry Red [Release date: 30.01.26] The Complete Recordings’ Boxset is a feat of logistics and research in itself, for which it deserves 5 stars, never mind the music.  136 tracks, 5 CDs. In the “Swinging Sixties” Manchester band Freddie And … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2026/01/album-review-freddie-and-the-dreamers-you-were-made-for-me-the-complete-recordings-1963-70/feed/ 0 Album review : THE CRYIN’ SHAMES – Please Stay, Joe Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/04/album-review-the-cryin-shames-please-stay-joe-meeks-tea-chest-tapes/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/04/album-review-the-cryin-shames-please-stay-joe-meeks-tea-chest-tapes/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:37:20 +0000 brianmc https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=94821 CRYIN SHAMES Teachest 150Cherry Red [Release date: 12.04.24] The Cryin’ Shames were late to the Merseybeat party, and departed almost as soon as they arrived. This a 2 CD reissue of every recording made by the band in its various guises. 48 tracks … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/04/album-review-the-cryin-shames-please-stay-joe-meeks-tea-chest-tapes/feed/ 0 Album review : V/A Let’s Stomp (Merseybeat 1962-1969) 3 CD set https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/05/album-review-va-lets-stomp-merseybeat-1962-1969-3-cd-set/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/05/album-review-va-lets-stomp-merseybeat-1962-1969-3-cd-set/#comments Sun, 14 May 2023 16:45:51 +0000 brianmc https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=88400 LetsStomp-final-stroke-min-1Cherry Red [Release date: 26.05.23] Heavily influenced by US Blues and Rock, Merseybeat was a sixties pop music phenomenon, originating in Liverpool, that swept all before it. First the UK, then Europe, ultimately invading the USA and the ROTW. Across … Continue reading →

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