Release Date: 17 October 2026
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Lasgo
£14.99
Various Artists Rock 'n' Roll Icons: A Musical Revolution Limited NAD 2026 Neon Pink 180gram Vinyl LP
Overview:
Celebrating National Album Day 2026, Rock 'n' Roll Icons: A Musical Revolution provides an essential overview of the explosive cultural shift that redefined popular music in the 1950s. Across eighteen seminal tracks, this collection traces how rhythm and blues, country, gospel, and boogie-woogie fused into an electrified youth phenomenon.
This album showcases the fundamental architects who created the sonic, structural, and stylistic blueprint of modern rock. It features pioneering guitarists and wild performers like Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Link Wray, whose distorted power chords and raw energy shattered social norms while capturing the genre's expanding reach through Buddy Holly's structural innovations, Wanda Jackson's fierce rockabilly, and Billy Fury's transatlantic impact.
Spanning raw rockabilly, New Orleans piano boogie, and heavy guitar instrumentals, this collection serves as an authoritative primer on the icons who ignited a global revolution.
180g Neon Pink - Charts The Advent Of Rock n Roll Through Iconic Artists
Featured Tracks:
Side A
1. ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK - Bill Haley & His Comets
2. JOHNNY B GOODE - Chuck Berry
3. TUTTI FRUTTI - Little Richard
4. HOUND DOG - Big Mama Thornton
5. AIN'T THAT A SHAME - Fats Domino
6. TEAR IT UP - Johnny Burnette
7. BO DIDDLEY - Bo Diddley
8. GREAT BALLS OF FIRE - Jerry Lee Lewis
9. COME ON, LET'S GO - Ritchie Valens
Side B
1. THAT'LL BE THE DAY - Buddy Holly & The Crickets
2. WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE - The Everly Brothers
3. SUMMERTIME BLUES - Eddie Cochran
4. LET'S HAVE A PARTY - Wanda Jackson
5. PARTY DOLL - Buddy Knox
6. TALLAHASSEE LASSIE - Freddy Cannon
7. DON'T KNOCK UPON MY DOOR - Billy Fury
8. BE-BOP-A-LULA - Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
9. RUMBLE - Link Wray
Release Date: 12 July 2019
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Absolute
£18.99
Release Date: 28 June 2019
Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: Rhino
£129.99
Release Date: 14 June 2019
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Decca
£19.99
Release Date: 14 June 2019
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Death Waltz Recording Co
£44.99
