{"id":807577,"date":"2020-05-18T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1001720"},"modified":"2020-05-18T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:02:35","slug":"hear-billie-joe-armstrong-cover-eric-carmens-thats-rock-n-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-billie-joe-armstrong-cover-eric-carmens-thats-rock-n-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Billie Joe Armstrong Cover Eric Carmen\u2019s \u2018That\u2019s Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the past few weeks, Green Day<\/a> frontman Billie Joe Armstrong<\/a> has been spending his time in self-isolation covering some of his favorite songs for a series he\u2019s dubbed \u201cNo Fun Mondays.\u201d His latest installment is a reverent rendition of Raspberries frontman Eric Carmen<\/a>\u2019s solo single \u201cThat\u2019s Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where the original, released in 1976<\/a>, started off with a sort of sparse, rockabilly vibe \u2014 the likes of which Bruce Springsteen would later emulate on \u201cGlory Days\u201d \u2014 and a big, brassy chorus buttressed with lush, AM-radio-ready backup vocals, Armstrong plays it straight. The guitar takes center stage in the music, from the scratchy riff to the wiggly lead line, leaving room for Armstrong\u2019s voice to surf over the top.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s song is \u2018That\u2019s Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll\u2019 by Eric Carmen who was also in The Raspberries,\u201d Armstrong wrote in the video\u2019s description. \u201cHowever the first time I heard this song was by teen heartthrob Shaun Cassidy. My sisters would dance around the house to this one!\u201d (Incidentally, Cassidy\u2019s version<\/a>, which became a Number Three hit in \u201977, boasts even more bells and whistles than Carmen\u2019s.)<\/p>\n

Cassidy responded to Armstrong\u2019s kind words on Twitter. \u201cAnd my daughters are dancing to this now,\u201d he wrote<\/a>. \u201cNice work Billie Joe!\u201d<\/p>\n

Carmen also shared some words of kindness for Armstrong. He tweeted<\/a>, \u201cBig shout out to Billie Jo [sic<\/em>] Armstrong of Green Day for this ultra-cool new take on \u2018That\u2019s Rock \u2018n Roll\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of his \u201cNo Fun Mondays\u201d series, Armstrong has also shared covers of the Bangles\u2019 (Prince composed) \u201cManic Monday,\u201d<\/a> the title song from That Thing You Do!<\/em>,<\/a> and Kim Wilde\u2019s \u201cKids in America.\u201d<\/a> \u201cI have a small studio, and as soon as the shutdown happened, I was like now I can go in and to occupy my time, go in and do some recording and some writing,\u201d Armstrong said of the series in an interview<\/a> with The Late, Late Show\u2019s<\/em> James Corden.<\/p>\n

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Over the past few weeks, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has been spending his time in self-isolation covering some of his favorite songs for a series he\u2019s dubbed \u201cNo Fun Mondays.\u201d His latest installment is a reverent rendition of Raspberries frontman Eric Carmen\u2019s solo single \u201cThat\u2019s Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll.\u201d Where the original, released in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 18:51:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}