The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (song) The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (song) "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" is the title song of "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" movie soundtrack album. The single was released on 12 September 1979 and featured vocals by Edward Tudor-Pole on both sides. According to producer Dave Goodman, both songs were recorded at The Who's Ramport Studios with himself playing bass on both tracks. According to Edward Tudor-Pole, the song originally featured lead vocals by Steve Jones. The final vocals were recorded live on the second day of an audition for singers specially filmed for inclusion in The Great
British folk rock on later albums, but reduced as the band returned to a hard rock sound from "Presence" (1976) onwards. As Led Zeppelin moved away from electric folk, one of other long term survivors of the British blues movement Jethro Tull began to move towards it. Ian Anderson had produced Steeleye Span’s album "Now We Are Six" in 1974 and first demonstrated a clear interest in more traditional sound on "Minstrel in the Gallery" (1975), but it was in 1977 with the release of "Songs from the Wood" (1977) that Anderson took the band into electric folk territory. All the songs on