{"id":7296,"date":"2011-05-31T10:52:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2011-05-31T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T15:05:08","slug":"please-explain-allmusicguides-explanation-of-showaddywaddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-allmusicguides-explanation-of-showaddywaddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Explain: AllMusicGuide&#8217;s Explanation of Showaddywaddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G5PaBGURkto?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>A good friend &#8220;turned me on&#8221; to a British band from the 70s called Showaddywaddy &#8212; a sort of UK version of Sha Na Na &#8212; saying bands like Showaddywaddy were the main reason the Sex Pistols came into existence. I cued up the video she sent along, and was suitably horrified. I then commenced an InterWeb search to find out more about this godawful band of musical merrymen, and found this, from the frequently &#8220;huh?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusicguide.com\" target=\"_blank\">AllMusicGuide<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the finest rock &amp; roll revival bands of the 1970s,\u00a0Showaddywaddy also proved to be one of the most successful and enduring. &#8230;\u00a0The group&#8217;s run of greatest hits sounds devastatingly pure, even authentic&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I say: WTF?! I mean, I&#8217;m used to a bit of ass-lickery on the part of AMG, but surely this is beyond the pale&#8230; right?<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend &#8220;turned me on&#8221; to a British band from the 70s called Showaddywaddy &#8212; a sort of UK version of Sha Na Na &#8212; saying bands like Showaddywaddy were the main reason the Sex Pistols came into existence. I cued up the video she sent along, and was suitably horrified. I then commenced <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-allmusicguides-explanation-of-showaddywaddy\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}