Best Songs Ever

What’s your favorite song?
Random Song
Please enter a search term (min. 2 chars)
Activities
iTunes Charts
ø 4.6 at 7 votes
What’s your rating?

Gary Glitter

Rock And Roll Part 2

Rock
  • Rock
  • Soundtrack
  • Dance
  • Techno
  • Pop
song from
2008
  • 1972
  • 2011
  • 1974
  • 1973
  • 1998

Alternative video Spotify
For the Taiwanese beverage, see HeySong. “Rock and Roll”, also known as “The Hey Song”, is a song performed by British glam rocker Gary Glitter that was released in 1972 as a single and on the album Glitter. Co-written by Glitter and Mike Leander, the song is in two parts: Part 1 is a vocal track reflecting on the history of the genre, and Part 2 is a mostly instrumental piece. Both parts were popular in Britain, and the single went to #2 on the British charts. In concert, Glitter merged both into one performance. In the US, the instrumental portion (Part 2) attracted most of the attention; it hit #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the years since, Part 2 of the song has often been played at various sporting events in Canada and the United States, particularly when the home team... Read on...

Current Rank: ...

Popularity on the Web

Web
YouTube
last.fm
Spotify
0%

Most votes come from United States, Portugal, and Romania.

Discover

More songs by Gary Glitter (See Charts): I Didn'T Know I Loved You, Another Rock 'N' Roll Christmas, I Love You Love Me Love, Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah), Hello Hello I'M Back Again, and I'M The Leader Of The Gang (I Am).

Popular in Rock (See Charts): Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway To Heaven, Beat It, Give In To Me, Wherever You Will Go, Stigmatized, Nothing'S Changed, Hotel California, Imagine, and Nothing Else Matters.

Comments


Use at most three hashtags in your comment to connect the song with a topic (i.e. #live or #workout). It must contain at least one letter. You can view a toplist for every tag.