Teenage Music
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| Teddy Boys in London circa 1970s (Source: www.huckmag.com) |
Do you consider your music as teenage music?
Yes. It should be teenage music. It’s music that should horrify adults and please teenagers. That’s how it started out anyway. I think that’s what’s wrong with rock music today. It’s music for adults. It’s respectable, it’s good, and it’s art. And it’s all these kind of things. That’s fine for music, but people kind of don’t understand the difference between rock-and-roll which is a lifestyle, a fashion, a music. It’s sexual intercourse. It’s a lot of things–and rock music is just merely music. Rock-and-roll is much bigger than that. Some people confuse rock music with rock-and-roll. Rock-and-roll is much better.
But the times have changed since the ’50s…
Yes, but good rock-and-roll is always good. We’re not interested in playing ’50s songs. That’s why we write our own lyrics. But the thing that made rock-and-roll great in the 50’s makes rock-and-roll great today. It’s an urgency, it’s a danger, it’s a true kind of folk music based on the blues. It means something to people. It brings a certain kind of people together. It separates the squares from the cool people. Pop music doesn’t do that. Pop music is just for everyone’s entertainment. Rock-and-roll is something more than that.
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