Name: THE CUPID QUESTION by Jadi Campbell featuring THE NEATLES...!
Start: 2024-12-02T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-12-02T21:15:00+01:00
Location: Merlin Kulturzentrum

THE CUPID QUESTION by Jadi Campbell featuring THE NEATLES
Girl Groups of The '60s: Pre-Beatles Queens of the Pop Chart

THE NEATLES - featuring Jasmine Thorn, Gabby Nelson, Vanessa Wagner, Elena Gallego Jimenez, Ashley Remus, Samantha Mohr, Paula Gil-Casares, Jasmina Dordevic, Charles C. Urban, Derrick Jenkins
We will be performing a representative selection from The Girl Group Repertoire packed within an original story by Author Jadi Campbell.
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In Pop Music History, the phenomenon between early Rock & Roll and the mid-1960s British Invasion is known as the Era of the “Girl Groups.” They offered a style rich in vocal harmonies that was eagerly embraced by a wide audience.
Flourishing between 1958 and 1965 – between Elvis and The Beatles - Girl Groups were genuine, authentic Rock & Roll! The music of The Shirelles, The Angels, The Ronettes, The Chiffons, The Marvelletes, The Shangrilas, etc. thrived in the fallow years of Rock & Roll while much of the rest of the music in this time grew tame, predictable and dull.
It was music of celebration – of simple joy, of innocence, of sex, of life itself. It was utopian stuff – a utopian of love between a boy and a girl, a utopia of feeling, of sentiment, of desire most of all.

A number of Girl Group hit songs were co-written by female songwriters, including Carole King, Ellie Greenwich, Cynthia Weil, and Florence Greenberg. If, up to that point, male voices and male songwriters dominated the popular music scene, things were changing. Rock & Roll had a new female sound that produced a string of hits.
During the Classic Girl Group Period, between 1961 – 1965, when this distinctive sound filled the radio air waves, some 750 Girl Groups put singles onto the pop chart. This is some of the most timeless, transporting pop ever recorded; when you hear a Girl Group hit today, you feel like it's 1963 all over again.
Author and Music Critic Greil Marcus, states: “The music was perhaps the most carefully, beautifully crafted in all of Rock & Roll – one reason why none of the twenty or so best records in the genre have dated in the years since they were made.”
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In cooperation with: DAZ – Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum, Staatministerin für Kultur und Medien, Kulturverein Merlin e.V.
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