David Essex - Rock On Lyrics

I first heard this from the movie dream a little dream

Heard this song when I was very, very small. It used to terrify me.

Brings me back to my high school days... great song!

If you read the lyrics, you may notice that this song is kind of a denouement for the first phase of rock music (1956-1973). In 1974, nobody had an answer to "Where do we go from here?
" In 1975, Bruce Springsteen came up with one answer. And from 1977-82, the punk/new wave people came up with another.

eggs over easy
james dean microwave please he
jody welch greasy

Still lookin for that blue jean baby queen .. prettiest girl I've ever seen ..see her shake on the movie screen.. .

James.
Dean.

This song sounds incredible because you can hear the bass pan across from left to right when you wear headphones 🎧! I remember being impressed with the the sound mix. Still a great song although I hear static on this too.

I thought this was a Def Leppard song. But then i heard Michael Damian sing it. So i was confused and now i know the truth. I am not a big fan of people covering originals. This is perfectly fine without needing to be covered by other artists.

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Such an innovative track...loved this when I was a kid when it went 'james deeen...lol

Dumb tune!

Devils Rejects Anyone 2020????

is that chest hair coming out of his shirt like dirty dog fur?

Really do like this song.

David Essex...Legend! Classic tune

Coolest song from 1974 . I remember being in elementary school at the time and loving this

If you don't like THIS song.... go kick rocks. Still the best version (Def Leppard 2nd).

Sitting in a willow tree in the back yard in the summer with my cousin Nancy...

Charlie's Frontier Fun Town brought me here

bones brigade brought me here

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Well im thinkin Luv n truth said it best

i fell in love with him with this song seen him live in cardiff rock on

When David Essex died in Silver Dream Racer , that sucked !

the amount of illegal substances we did the summer this rocked that charts is truly outstanding as is jeff waynes arrangement and david essex vocals...

Nice song, Is this from the 80's?

( ͡^ ͜ʖ ͡^) Yeah!! Good Song! 👍🏆

I wonder what David Essex is doing for fun nowadays...

Probably still rockin on

@Judd Guilbeau i hope so...he plays damn good music

Blue jean baby queen here- was, is and forever🤘

Awesome song ,this is why you tube is great

Yes!!!!

he was hot ♥ and hot song

All of a sudden it's 1974 and I am in my dad's steel monster of a car.

So.. I was at a strip club in Lawton, OK .. minding my own business when this song came on. .. it's kind of a fog after that... but I know a stripper named Tammy was involved..
Long ago and far away....

wrong place to be minding your own business

Would your "inner child" respond to that song?

A very dramatic Basso Profundo. Love it.

the only great song on the record

Now music is made by machines and beats from YouTube if you ask me it’s not worth it music will never be this great again I hope great music is on a hiatus that’s what I keep tellin myself

my mum told me she loved David Essex so much she would have left our dad and given up us kids for him , ha ha ha!! Cant blame her !!

I just realised the Verve's b-side "Dance on your Bones" sounds exactly like this!

i met him in cardiff and he was just great i love this song so much

James Dean!

(Said in a deep baritone growl) :-)

Did they do this in a studio?

I love the true sound 😍🙏🏻🌹😘

I never liked David Essex. I always thought he was a smug smarmy git and creepy. I do however love the guitar on this track. You can also hear the group the Real Thing doing backing vocals.

Haydn Po get your punk ass out of here

I am glad I was a teenager when this first came out on the radio

Is there a Remastered version of this bad ass tune...if not,there should be.way to much hiss and distortion,you can't crank it up to much because of the background B.S.noise.

https://youtu.be/Vm5VJAUfPmQ

Rock on.....Where do we go from here?

What essence.

I was just young man

Keep on rockin

I love this song!

So this is the original? I honestly do like it more than the cover, more smooth an mellow.

Nice Cutlass or is it a regal?

@84montecarlo it's a Cutlass, an it's not mine, belongs to a friend of mine, it's name is "Mr. pure" an is powered by a fully built lsx.

One of the coolest bass lines ever

Herbie Flowers

2019 and humans are still humans if you just take the time to yank them away from their phones and set them straight. 20yrs

james
Ha ha, I'm watching this on my phone

Awesome song

STILL a great record

Cool shit really layed back

Classic song !

My child hood coming back,good tune.2019.

Devils rejects brought me here, anyone else???😂

Same here!

No. I'm 58. Great movie.

Hey you still an asshole?
(Flips the bird)😆😆😆

wow I thought this was Steve Miller for the longest time

Witches: the way that's clear. Any thoughts?

Burnzy1976 “which is the way that’s clear?”

@Gordon Beckley it may have been a play on words, I was playfully speculating.

Jimmy Dean? Isn't he the old guy who made breakfast sausage?

@TiredOldDude1962 In a Porsche 550 Spyder. Alec Guinness foretold James Dean's death. Check this out --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-nptoFE1Js

James Dean

Rebel without a cause

@BorisW150 wasn't it also called Little Bastard?

Lol yep yep wore blue suede shoes and sold sausage in the movie "Giant"

try it at half speed...cooooool

I was fourteen when this song came out and they took us on a school trip to Norway and we saw the midnight sun and we were given a certificate by King Neptune certifying that we had entered into the Arctic Circle and they took us to see a glacier and we (me and Ricky F.) sneaked away from the group and it was there, in all that diamond sparkle, that I kissed another boy for the very first time and it tasted so sweet. Tasted like honey. " Tupelo honey baby. Honey from the bees "

That's gay bro

Ultimate stoner tune.

I love this song. I grew up with this on the radio

98.9% of comments: haven’t heard this song in forever
1% Other stuff
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This song was way ahead of it's time.

I remember this classic back in the day! My one guitar playing buddy put it thru a Early echo reflection delay " Haas in Hell " effect.. with stereo speakers far apart. Sounds creepy! Kinda like reverse reverb but not quite! Listen to Frank Marino song " Free" where Frank talks " Enough he cried... Enough".........weird sound...

Not bad, except for the Glam arrangement, outdated!

What a great musical effort

ROCK ON...

Hi-Riders (1978)
Soundtracks
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076140/soundtrack?ref_=tt_ql_trv_7

My 1st music purchase. On a 45

Do you hear that? This is what music is supposed to sound like.

@7531monkey Well I exist so you are automatically wrong there.

@7531monkey Yup, I was in hight school when this was on the charts. I'm 61, you figure it out.

@7531monkey only young people might claim its not.

Ok boomer

@Mark Hanson decrepit old man, indeed. of course, i peaked at 20, anyhow. not that any of the rest has been bad...not at all. its just......that was SO good.

Def Leppard just did this song live what a great band.

Agreed. They did an excellent cover of it. We saw them again live, last July in Atlanta! My fav 80s rock band ever!!

"Rock On"...Damn right!

Kind of reminds me of Bowie's 'Fame'. Just a tinge scary, and one of my first favorite rock songs
Three tabs under my tongue rn lol

Three tabs under my tongue rn lol

Why does this song make me want to start a civilisation in the sewer?

Now you've got me thinking about the book "The Fall of New York" by the late Miles Donis. I read it over and over in my middle school/junior high years in the mid-late 1970's. This song and that book absolutely go together.

2:10 The moment Jimmy Dean bailed out of the song...

Love this song. I don't know how they got that delayed echo effect on lyrics, but it's great. The vinyl hiss and crackle is a bit loud, but I guess that's just how it was.......I grew up more with cassettes, which were ok until they got stretched or chewed up :-)

Bass beers and free my soul Tj LERNER AND Roe Tj

This is the quintessential rock song.
Was this recorded from a wax cylinder?
I'm still looking for my blue jean baby queen

The Devils Rejects Brought Me Here !
Was this recorded from a wax cylinder?

Where do we go from here?
Was this recorded from a wax cylinder?

you were

Quintessential 70s tune , Chillin' Out!

Another BBC sponsored jerk of

Anyone else hear this song in the beginning of Jonas’ Brothers new song I’m A Sucka For U?

You cant even catch ...that sound...any more with digital...i miss that depth and niosey analog...sound ....it gave music life....when it was recorded in a magnetic reel to reel....

Such an underrated song. It sounds sinister in ‘The Devils Rejects’.

Jimmy Dean

This song makes me want to buy a pair of blue suede shoes and just hop up and down in them while blaring this song 😁🤗

My guess is - they started recording a fairly typical, run-of-the-mill, David Essex type pop song. Then Jeff Wayne pushed a wrong button whilst replaying the bass track (making it play at half the speed and dropping it an octave),...and BANG inspiration hit and he recorded the whole thing based around that super-deep, slow bass riff. And music history was made.

Story goes while the producer went out to lunch David and Herbie Flowers laid down the vocal and bass line together. A jam basically. Herbie, who created the most famous bass line in history on Walk on the Wild Side, detuned his Jazz bass (a lot) for this. Good theory tho. 👍

An Australian program called RockWiz has a cracking version of this song.

Reminds me of Rockerboy Johny Silverhand.