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Music / Musik » alt.fan.frank-zappa » The Observer UK: 'Rock'n'Roll' directed by Trevor Nunn at the RoyalCourt
| The Observer UK: 'Rock'n'Roll' directed by Trevor Nunn at the RoyalCourt [message #283580] |
Sa, 24 Juni 2006 09:28 |
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A night out with Syd, the velvet revolutionary
Paul Morley
Sunday June 18, 2006
The Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1795994,00.html
I've got the energy, honest, to list all the things that Tom
Stoppard's new play Rock'n'Roll is about, but not the time or the
space. I would need the time it now takes Pink Floyd to make an
album - upwards of 20 years - and the space that nowadays tends
to be filled by Colleen McLoughlin holding a handbag. Put it this
way, it is not as such a musical, although now and then it
trembles at the edges of being a psychedelically cerebral version
of Ben Elton's Rod Stewart musical, except in this case it's
about the warped music, odd life and near death of pop's Lewis
Carroll, Syd Barrett. Now and then it's a profound, sapient
version of the Ben Elton Queen musical, except it's about the
isolated, Zappa-loving Czech band the Plastic People of the
Universe who formed a month after the August 1968 Russian
invasion of Czechoslovakia.
In some senses Rock'n'Roll is a symbolically rollicking episode
of Ab Fab about class, consciousness and revolution written by a
ruthless genius thinking at a speed unfashionable in this day and
age. It's also a way of taking three hours to make a fairly good
joke about Cliff Richard, an academic one about Kraftwerk, and to
sum up the Sixties in a single sentence that involves the word
'brothel'.
Some of us born within 30 or so years of Stoppard, up to about
1968 where his play begins, will be comfortable using the phrase
rock'n'roll, and understand that it doesn't really mean Bill
Haley or Elvis, but everything that makes it inside this
magazine, even if sung by girls holding handbags like Colleen or
made by machines programmed by salesmen.
The play could be taken as an introduction to rock'n'roll for
those who haven't really been paying attention since Cliff, and
for whom this magazine appears to be written in Klingon. It's an
introduction for those who think of rock'n'roll as merely a
long-haired thing that's about as important to the way the world
works as a handbag, but it's also a sentimental celebration of
the visceral, philosophical and political force of a music that
is now mostly compromised by business interests. It explains how
Warhol's banana, the Plastic People's cover versions of the
Velvets and the Fugs, and in a way Syd's cavalier tenderness led
directly to 1989's Velvet Revolution and the presidency of Vaclav
Havel.
It's also a way for Tom to list his favourite songs. Rock'n'Roll
is like a tricky Dada edition of Desert Island Discs, where the
chat in between the music is about ageing, mysticism, fanaticism,
the humiliations of the intellectual under totalitarianism, the
mysteries of passion, the history of crass material ambitions and
the cosmic nihilism of the West. He's a besotted Pink Floyd man -
perhaps one of those who believe they were never as good once the
Syd influence waned - and a soundtrack to the play would start
well with Dylan, the Stones, the Velvets, Grateful Dead, early
Floyd, Lennon, solo Syd, eventually reaching U2 and Guns 'n' Roses.
His history of rock'n'roll misses punk, but in a way the Plastic
People supply it with their driven, desperate versions of Tom's
canon. For Stoppard, rock'n'roll is now history, tamed and
tagged, endlessly replayed, echoing softly through the iPod
eternity. In the play he makes his case for how and why it is
important history, and how it all really ended when Communism
did, or when vinyl did, or even when Syd, his Elvis, stopped singing.
· 'Rock'n'Roll' directed by Trevor Nunn is at the Royal Court,
London SW1, until 15 July and then at the Duke of York's Theatre,
WC2, from 22 July until 24 September
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| Re: The Observer UK: 'Rock'n'Roll' directed by Trevor Nunn at the Royal Court [message #283605 ] |
So, 25 Juni 2006 07:35 |
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> a soundtrack to the play would start well with Dylan, the Stones, the
> Velvets, Grateful Dead, early Floyd, Lennon, solo Syd, eventually reaching
> U2 and Guns 'n' Roses.
Grateful is not dead. It's just its feet smell funny.
globual
"Shrike" <caltrops [at] newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:449CE9B7.7040305 [at] newsguy.com...
>A night out with Syd, the velvet revolutionary
>
> Paul Morley
> Sunday June 18, 2006
> The Observer
> http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1795994,00.html
>
> I've got the energy, honest, to list all the things that Tom Stoppard's
> new play Rock'n'Roll is about, but not the time or the space. I would need
> the time it now takes Pink Floyd to make an album - upwards of 20 years -
> and the space that nowadays tends to be filled by Colleen McLoughlin
> holding a handbag. Put it this way, it is not as such a musical, although
> now and then it trembles at the edges of being a psychedelically cerebral
> version of Ben Elton's Rod Stewart musical, except in this case it's about
> the warped music, odd life and near death of pop's Lewis Carroll, Syd
> Barrett. Now and then it's a profound, sapient version of the Ben Elton
> Queen musical, except it's about the isolated, Zappa-loving Czech band the
> Plastic People of the Universe who formed a month after the August 1968
> Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.
>
> In some senses Rock'n'Roll is a symbolically rollicking episode of Ab Fab
> about class, consciousness and revolution written by a ruthless genius
> thinking at a speed unfashionable in this day and age. It's also a way of
> taking three hours to make a fairly good joke about Cliff Richard, an
> academic one about Kraftwerk, and to sum up the Sixties in a single
> sentence that involves the word 'brothel'.
>
> Some of us born within 30 or so years of Stoppard, up to about 1968 where
> his play begins, will be comfortable using the phrase rock'n'roll, and
> understand that it doesn't really mean Bill Haley or Elvis, but everything
> that makes it inside this magazine, even if sung by girls holding handbags
> like Colleen or made by machines programmed by salesmen.
>
> The play could be taken as an introduction to rock'n'roll for those who
> haven't really been paying attention since Cliff, and for whom this
> magazine appears to be written in Klingon. It's an introduction for those
> who think of rock'n'roll as merely a long-haired thing that's about as
> important to the way the world works as a handbag, but it's also a
> sentimental celebration of the visceral, philosophical and political force
> of a music that is now mostly compromised by business interests. It
> explains how Warhol's banana, the Plastic People's cover versions of the
> Velvets and the Fugs, and in a way Syd's cavalier tenderness led directly
> to 1989's Velvet Revolution and the presidency of Vaclav Havel.
>
> It's also a way for Tom to list his favourite songs. Rock'n'Roll is like a
> tricky Dada edition of Desert Island Discs, where the chat in between the
> music is about ageing, mysticism, fanaticism, the humiliations of the
> intellectual under totalitarianism, the mysteries of passion, the history
> of crass material ambitions and the cosmic nihilism of the West. He's a
> besotted Pink Floyd man - perhaps one of those who believe they were never
> as good once the Syd influence waned - and a soundtrack to the play would
> start well with Dylan, the Stones, the Velvets, Grateful Dead, early
> Floyd, Lennon, solo Syd, eventually reaching U2 and Guns 'n' Roses.
>
> His history of rock'n'roll misses punk, but in a way the Plastic People
> supply it with their driven, desperate versions of Tom's canon. For
> Stoppard, rock'n'roll is now history, tamed and tagged, endlessly
> replayed, echoing softly through the iPod eternity. In the play he makes
> his case for how and why it is important history, and how it all really
> ended when Communism did, or when vinyl did, or even when Syd, his Elvis,
> stopped singing.
>
> · 'Rock'n'Roll' directed by Trevor Nunn is at the Royal Court, London SW1,
> until 15 July and then at the Duke of York's Theatre, WC2, from 22 July
> until 24 September
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