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Rock and Roll Is Dead

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Released
  
June 6, 2005

Length
  
40:22

Release date
  
6 June 2005

Recorded
  
February, 2005

Artist
  
The Hellacopters

Producer
  
Chips Kiesbye

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Label
  
Universal AB, Universal International, Wild Kingdom, Liquor and Poker Music, Sacred Heart Recordings

Rock & Roll Is Dead (2005)
  
Air Raid Serenades (2008)

Genres
  
Punk rock, Garage rock, Garage punk

Nominations
  
Grammis Award for Rock Group of the Year

Similar
  
The Hellacopters albums, Punk rock albums

Rock & Roll Is Dead is the sixth studio album released by the Swedish rock band The Hellacopters. The first edition of the CD came with a 25-minute bonus DVD entitled Poking at the Stiff and chronicled the second of the two weeks of recording the album. The vinyl release had seven different colors of the vinyl: brown, green, white, clear, orange, red and black. There was also picture disc from Sacred Heart Recordings available in a limited run of 200 units with the inner sleeve artwork printed on the vinyl and the songs "It Might Mean Something To You" and "Positively So Naive" as bonus tracks.

Contents

The song "I'm in the Band" is available as a bonus song in the game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and "Bring It on Home" can be heard in the game NHL 07.

Personnel

The Hellacopters;

  • Nicke Andersson – Vocals guitars, piano, percussion
  • Robert Dahlqvist – Guitars, vocals
  • Kenny Håkansson – Bass guitar
  • Anders Lindström – Organ, piano, guitar, backing vocals
  • Robert Eriksson – Drums, backing vocals
  • Additional musicians;

  • Pelle Almqvist – Howl
  • Linn Segolsson – Backing vocals
  • Clarisse Muvemba – Backing vocals
  • Mattias Bärjed – Acoustic guitar
  • Johan Bååth – Hand claps
  • Production;

  • Chips Kiesbye – Producer, engineer
  • Michael Ibert – Engineer
  • Janne hansson – Engineer
  • Henrik Johnsson – Mastering
  • Songs

    1Before the Fall2:12
    2Everything's on TV3:15
    3Monkeyboy2:39

    References

    Rock & Roll Is Dead Wikipedia