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rockers

n. (plural of rocker English)

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rockers

n. originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers [syn: bikers]

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Rockers (1978 film)

Rockers is a 1978 Jamaican film by Theodoros Bafaloukos. Several popular reggae artists star in the movie, including Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, Big Youth, Dillinger, and Jacob Miller.

Rockers was originally intended to be a documentary but blossomed into a full-length feature showing the reggae culture at its peak. With a budget of JA$500,000, the film was completed in two months.

In this film, the culture, characters and mannerisms are authentic. The main rocker Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, for example, is shown living with his actual wife and kids and in his own home. The recording studios shown are the famous Harry J Studios where many roots reggae artists recorded during the 1970s including Bob Marley. The film includes Kiddus I's recording of "Graduation In Zion" at the studio, which he happened to be recording when Bafaloukos visited the studio.

Rockers premiered at the 1978 San Francisco Film Festival and had a theatrical release in the US in 1980.

Samples of the film's dialogue were used in the early 1990s jungle track, "Babylon" by Splash, "Terrorist Dub" by Californian ragga-metal band Insolence, in the track "Zion Youth" from the 1995 album Second Light by Dreadzone and in 2012 in the song "Smoke" by Inner Terrestrials. The Jamaican Patois spoken throughout the film is rendered with English language subtitles for a foreign audience.

Rockers (play)

Rockers is a play written by Sherwood Schwartz about three women and their lives in a retirement home. It first played in 1993 for a short while. The play was recently revised in November 2006 and played at Theatre West in Hollywood California.

Rockers (album)

Rockers is a compilation of songs by the band Styx. It was released in 2003. The album is notable for deliberately omitting any songs for which former member Dennis DeYoung was the primary or sole writer; even DeYoung-penned signature ballad-to-rocker hits such as " Queen of Spades", " Suite Madame Blue", and " Rockin' the Paradise" are missing.

Instead of the famous angular "Styx" logo (used for most albums in some form since 1977), this collection re-introduces the curved logo from their first four albums and not used since 1974's Man of Miracles.

Rockers (soundtrack)

The soundtrack to the film Rockers was released in 1979.

Rockers (2003 film)

is a 2003 Japanese comedy drama directed by Takanori Jinnai. It is a fictional account of real-life Japanese rock band, The Rockers.

Usage examples of "rockers".

Each had its own vegetable garden and some had porches, with rockers and chairs waiting to be used after a hard day in the fields.

I just ushered him in the direction of the rockers that sit back by the grocery counter.

General Store featured no Guardians of the Beam such as Roland had told of in Mejis, but rockers were lined up the long length of the porch, as many as two dozen of them.

We sit in the high-back rockers working on the royal chronicles and talking about the boys.

The arms of their big rockers are pushed close to support a box of chocolates and they turn pink sunburned faces to greet her with big brown melted-chocolate smiles.

So there they are sitting in the two rockers, she and Em, creaking back and forth, back and forth more or less in silence, when her calls.

She put her hands to Ceis, popped off a harmonic that stung the ears even of the veteran rockers, and jerked up on the tremolo bar.