Why write an article about pub-rock? Why not ?!! Well, this is not an article in the truest sense of the word, it's a kind of sum up over the most important artists/bands of the era. There's not much info to be found anywhere, so this is my humble attempt trying to do something about it .....
Pub-rock is a neglected, overseen genre with loads of goodtime music which absolutely deserves a wider recognition. The pub-rock genre covers a lot of ground musically. Pop, rock, soul, blues, country jump'n'jive and beyond. Take a dose of each this styles, put it in a shaker, shake it well and pour your self a pint......and you have a potent mix of exciting, tasty and durable liquid which tastes like nothing else.
The pub-rock scene had it's golden period from the early seventies and onwards to the start of the eighties. Of course a lot of bands and artists plays in the pubs today, but the pub-rock as a phenomenon was at its peak in this period. It's said that the pub-rock as a phenomenon was a reaction to all those dinosaur and mastodont bands which reigned at the time. And there's no doubt about that the pub-rock scene was the inspiration for the punk scene to happen.
To find information about the pub-rock scene and its bands and artists, is not an easy task, but some very useful sources has to be mentioned:
Terry Hounsome's great rock reference book "Rock Record" (now available on CD-rom as well as the good old book version !), Virgin's Encyclopedia books about music, The Guinness' Who's Who books, articles from the long gone Swedish magazine LARM (what an excellent magazine it was !) and maybe most of all, the liner notes and bits and pieces taken from the covers of my own record collection.

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