Elizabethan Rock Music

[The Bloated One]

One for the hive mind - A lot of you will have been brought up listening to and enjoying rock music. I am looking for a number of songs that could be played in the following scenario...

I am writing the sequel to my time travelling book, and have a scene in Elizabethan England that needs your help.

Lord Dudley tried to impress and woo good Queen Bess by putting on a 21 day spectacular in July, 1575, at his pad in Kenilworth Castle. one event was a water pageant with a singer dressed as Arion, riding on boat made to look like a 24 foot long dolphin. Inside the dolphin were a group of musicians.
Let's say for arguments sake, that those musicians are a full rock band with guitars, amplifers, keyboards and drums. As the dolphin moves across the lake toward QE1, what songs would they play? I'll start you off....Smoke on the Water.

 

[Toby Frost]

Are we talking pun titles? Because if so...

"A Whole Lute of Love" by Jimmy the Page and Robert Plantagenet. Possibly not "Killer Queen" or "Crazy, Crazy Knights".
"Alehouse Rock" by Elvis de Parsley
"Whiskey Bard" by Jim son of Morris and the (trouba)Doors

Followed by a DJ set by Dr John D, alchemist and deckromancer, on the wheels of steel (well, wood).

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

A rock version of Bess, You Is My Woman Now

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Then there's Rick Wakeman's Elizabethan Rock

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Or even better, the band could do a full album cover of Rick's The Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Or just this one, Tudorock

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Or a bit of Ska from Boris Gardiner - Elizabethan Reggae

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Or, since it's on water, some surf music - Duane Eddy & The Ventures - Spanish Armada

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Maybe another maritime connection - The Youngloods - On Sir Francis Drake

Or something a bit heavier on the same subject
Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate by Bestial Invasion

 

[The Bloated One]

Are we talking pun titles? Because if so...

"A Whole Lute of Love" by Jimmy the Page and Robert Plantagenet. Possibly not "Killer Queen" or "Crazy, Crazy Knights".
"Alehouse Rock" by Elvis de Parsley
"Whiskey Bard" by Jim son of Morris and the (trouba)Doors

Followed by a DJ set by Dr John D, alchemist and deckromancer, on the wheels of steel (well, wood).

Yes, anything humorous.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Violet Moon by Blackmore's Night (great album).

 

[The Bloated One]

Violet Moon by Blackmore's Night (great album).

I have the album somewhere. Time to find it!

 

[Danny McG]

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

While we're on the subject of Horrible Histories

 

[The Bloated One]

While we're on the subject of Horrible Histories

Utterly bonker, love em!

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

"Religion (II)" by PiL would have gone down well in the court, in those divided times

 

[paranoid marvin]

Well if there's someone riding on a dolphin, Surfin' Safari?

Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

Rule The World (Take That)

I'm Your Man (Wham)

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

How could we forget?

 

[Wayne Mack]

If the idea is to woo Queen Elizabeth, how about "Beth" by Kiss?

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

Personally I'm thinking Credence and Proud Mary!

But since the lot of them are probably going to be burnt at the stake as witches shortly - Bad Moon Rising might be more apt!

Cheers, Greg.

 

[Astro Pen]