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Hannah Pezzack
, May 18th, 2021 07:41
A re-issue from the 80s synth band Electric Party, Play is a fascinating slice of Amsterdam’s history, finds Hannah Pezzack
There’s a certain mythos that lingers in the history of the Dutch squatter’s movement. In the early 1960s, in response to Amsterdam’s housing crisis, local activists began taking over empty buildings which were kept in disarray by landlords in order to artificially increase rent prices. Incentivised by the collective action, the decade that followed was dubbed “Amsterdam Magisch Centrum” (Amsterdam Magical Centre), by the countercultural artist Robert Jasper Grootveld. The city gained traction as the cultural nexus of Europe; a place of creative and social innovation, attracting hordes of young, politically minded emigrates from all over the world.
Forever No. 1 is a Billboard
series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single by taking an extended look back at the chart-topping songs that made them part of this exclusive club. Here, we honor the late Les McKeown with a look at his group the Bay City Rollers first and only Hot 100 No. 1, the timeless weekend anthem Saturday Night.
If you read the BBC s news story from Thursday (April 22) about the recent passing of singer Les McKeown who died at age 65 on Tuesday, as announced by his family you ll find a relatively comprehensive retelling of his history as a musician, from his early days in the relatively unknown band Threshold to mid- 70s superstardom as a member of the Bay City Rollers. You ll also find a brief analysis of his significance to his home country Scotland, as frontman for one of the country s most successful cultural exports of the Me Decade