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Marillion - Somewhere Else

This split, he adds, does have some roots in the social structure of the United States. People were segregated, both through law and through practice, and it was perhaps a natural step for the white decision makers of the recording industry to develop a system of segregating records according to the race of the performers.

As musical styles like urban blues and bop began to appear in the 1940s, it felt ridiculous to put all of those under the umbrella of race music simply because the artists were all Black. Although the term may have gone away, in the ’40s, the idea of segregating the music of Black performers had become well ingrained within the American psyche, Redd writes.

Though radio made it easier for all listeners to hear all kinds of music, by the 1950s, many of these same stations were again using the terms R&B and rock interchangeably. DJ Alan Freed’s Rock and Roll Show played R&B. And though Freed is credited with popularizing the term as a genre, the lyrics of rhythm and blues songs are replete with references to roll and rock or rocking and rolling, Redd writes. Some of these date back as far as the 1920s. Freed himself even saw the genres as the same, frequently using both terms because, he believed they represented the same music.


Marillion - Somewhere Else
  • Producer by: Michael Hunter
  • Released in: 2012
  • Genre: Rock

"Marillion are a rock band formed in Aylesbury, England . Their 30 year career is marked by two distinctive phases, the early years fronted by Fish which saw their greatest commercial success, and since 1988 when the band have constantly reinvented themselves."

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