Nowhere Boy OST |  | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Sony Music
Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
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Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
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Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 886976258528
EAN: 0886976258528
ASIN: B002VJJUDG
Release Date: December 14, 2009
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Disc 1
| • | Jerry Lee Lewis - Wild One | | • | Dickie Valentine - Mr Sandman | | • | Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats - Rocket 88 | | • | Elvis Presley - Shake, Rattle & Roll | | • | Wanda Jackson - Hard Headed Woman | | • | Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You | | • | The Nowhere Boys - Maggie May | | • | The Nowhere Boys - That'll Be The Day | | • | Eddie Bond and The Stompers - Rockin' Daddy | | • | Eddie Cochran - Twenty Flight Rock | | • | The Nowhere Boys - That's Alright Mamma | | • | The Nowhere Boys - Raunchy | | • | The Nowhere Boys - Movin' and Groovin' | | • | Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog | | • | Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps - Be-Bop-A-Lula | | • | Aaron Johnson - Hello Little Girl | | • | The Nowhere Boys -In Spite Of All The Danger | | • | John Lennon - Mother |
Disc 2
| • | Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven | | • | Bill Haley and His Comets - Rock Around The Clock | | • | Little Richard - Rip It Up | | • | Elvis Presley - Baby, Let's Play House | | • | Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue | | • | Buddy Knox - Party Doll | | • | Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law | | • | Vince Taylor and His Playboys - Brand New Cadillac | | • | Dale Hawkins - Susie-Q | | • | Shirley & Lee - Let The Good Times Roll | | • | Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want) | | • | Fats Domino - Ain't That A Shame | | • | Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee | | • | Frankie Vaughan - These Dangerous Years | | • | The Del-Vikings - Come Go With Me |
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 nice and easy June 15, 2010
F. Panin (Holland)
Nice music - actually most disappointing are the songs played by the real John. It triggered me to know more Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran.
 Inside The Mind of John Lennon January 4, 2010
Treat Reynolds (Edinburgh, Scotland)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Nowhere Boy is an emotionally moving biopic about the coming of age years of John Lennon during the time when he first discovered who his real mother was. It also depicts Lennon when he first formed his first band The Quarrymen. The film ends as a teenage Lennon and McCartney set off for Hamburg.
What makes the original soundtrack album so authentic and appealing is selection of songs that makes up the psychological backdrop and tone of Lennon's teenage years. His only escape at the time was rock and roll, and most of the songs on the album reflect the music he was listening to at the time, songs that inspired him to form his first band (The Quarrymen) with McCartney.
There's two distictive sides to the music in the film and on the double CD. Firstly, the selection of original classics of the time sets the tone. And when you first hear these classics in the cinema whilst watching the film, particularly the emotional encounter scene when Lennon first meets his mother, Julia, the high volume assault of Screamin' Jay Hawkins'I Put A Spell On You' is both rivetting and way ahead of its time.
It's also the mainstream songs of the time, that gets you in the mood (Dickie Valentine's Mr Sandman), while the rockin' classics like Jerry Lee Lewis' Wild One, Elvis' Shake, Rattle & Roll, Eddie Cochran's Twenty Flight Rock, and Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps' Be-Bop-A-Lula reminds us how relevant and powerful vintage rock and roll still is to this very day.
What sets the original motion picture soundtrack apart from the majority of other film biopics is the fact that the main actors in the film who portrayed The Quarrymen, actually went into the studio to record around six Quarrymen original songs for the film.
Main actor, Aaron Johnson actually learned how to play the banjo and guitar for his role as the teenage Lennon, so what you end up listening to on the album is The Nowhere Boys (the actors who portrayed The Quarrymen) performing The Quarrymen songs. These include Maggie May, That's Alright Mamma, Raunchy, Movin' and Groovin', and the double A-side single That'll Be The Day and In Spite of All The Danger. Aaron Johnson even performs an acoustic version of The Quarrymen's Hello Little Girl to startling effect.
For authenticity, you also get tracks by more obscure artists of the time, including Big Mamma Thorton's original version of Hound Dog, Wanda Jackson's Hard Headed Woman, Jackie Breston and His Delta Cats' Rocket 88, Eddie Bond and The Stompers' Rockin' Daddy.
The film closes with the confssional Mother, the touching song about John's mother, Julia, that originally appeared on John's first solo album after he formed the Beatles years later. Although Mother is out of context, decade-wise, the inclusion of this highly personal track, runs over the film credits at the end of the film. What you get in the film and on the album is an alternative demo version of Mother, which is different from the version that made it on to John Lennon's debut solo album.
All of the above eighteen tracks appear on Disc 1. However, the double CD also inclues a second disc of music that inspired John Lennon during his teenage years, songs that were popular in the charts at the time, which once again, gives the overall tone of the original soundtrack relevance and authenticity of the music that was popular during the time when Lennon made the transition from a young man searching for his real parents to his transition into a rock and roll star. Fascinating stuff.
 ...sod the beatles, this is rock and roll... December 24, 2009
Mr. H (Embra)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I think it's safe to say that it would take an entire herd of wild horses to drag me into the picture house to see the new biopic "Nowhere Boy". After all, my antipathy to all things Beatles is well documented, so the idea of a biopic about John Lennon's teenage years is not a winner round my way. I've seen enough moody, bequiffed impersonations for this lifetime.
However, the soundtrack album is an entirely different matter. The record you'll find in the shops is a 2 CD set that the soundtrack alongside a "Music Inspired By" second disc. Now, pause for a moment and that about that "Music Inspired By" tag. How exactly does a film released in 2009 go about inspiring Duane Eddy, Buddy Holly, Dale Hawkins, Little Richard, Bobby Charles, Fats Domino and all the others? Unless there's been some "Back To The Future" type shenanigans, then I think that someone at the record company needs slapped about the head.
Back on planet reality, and the actual soundtrack is an absolute belter. For sure, we've heard some of these songs a million times before, but the out and out excitement of 'Wild One' by Jerry Lee Lewis, 'Rocket 88' by Jackie Brenston and Eddie Cochran's 'Twenty Flight Rock' bear listening to a million times more. There's also a handful of tracks from the band who play The Quarrymen in the movie and, although unnecessary, they're not a disgrace, with 'Movin' and Groovin', their best shot.
However, when Big Mama Thornton and Gene Vincent crank up 'Hound Dog' and 'Be-Bop-A-Lula' one more time, they knock everything the Beatles ever recorded into a cocked hat. A fabulous soundtrack that acts as a great rock 'n' roll primer.
The same mistakes December 17, 2009
Richard (Blackpool England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
When ever one of these soundtrack albums appears theres always something historically inaccurate.The worst offender was THAT'LL BE THE DAY which featured songs yet to be written-the musical director Neil Aspinall should have known better
Here you have the original version of Hound Dog which was certainly not the version Lennon ever heard and it was never available till the blues boom later in the decade.
Its not the inclusion of Dickie Valentine that's wrong-the Ted Heath Band was essential radio listening in the early 50s when Lita Rosa became the first Liverpudlian to top the charts.This was the time of Rocket 88-now said to be the first rnr recording yet it was never available here at the time and was probably never featured by the Ted Heath Band.The first U K version was by Haley's Comets
And if this is Lennon's early days and influences there is obvious names missing-Lonnie Donegan for starters which is why the Quarrymen were a skiffle group.
Also out of place here are Eddie Bond & the Stompers-they may have been from the 50s but as far as the U K goes nothing was released until the 70s.
What I wonder is Screamin Jay Hawkins doing here-another name not in any Beatles encyclopedia
Glancing at the credits a couple of songs come complete with wrong info-the writers of Rock around the Clock did NOT include some person who sounds Swedish-yet Jimmy de Knight is missing.The other glaring error is with Baby let's play house-produced aby Sam Philips and NOT Felton Jarvis who never entered the Elvis picture till well into the 60s or possibly the early 70s.
These kind of mistakes are plain silly-they should have checked Wikipedia
Bit of a Mersey mishmash... December 14, 2009
G. E. Harrison (Cheltenham)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I haven't seen Sam Taylor-Wood's film yet but this double CD features one CD of music featured in the film (including six tracks by a band playing the Quarrymean -'The Nowhere Boys') plus a second CD of music that influenced the Beatles/the Quarrymen. You could say that the soundtrack is a bit of a mishmash featuring as it does classic rock and roll, R&B, blues and naff 50s British pop, together with the modern recordings by the Nowhere Boys, and while some of these songs (Dicky Valentine) jar a little this is exactly the combination of sounds that the Beatles melded together to produce Merseybeat. However, it would have been nice if some skiffle could have been included to reflect the times and because the Quarrymen were actually a skiffle band.
That said the record does include some all-time classic rock and roll, including arguably the first rock and roll record from 1951 Jackie Brenston's "Rocket 88", Big Mama Thornton's definitive original version of "Hound dog" and Gene Vincent's very influential "Be-Bop-A-Lula".
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