Here’s a treasure trove of film and newsreel clips showing how rock’n’roll made its presence felt in Finland between 1957 and 1961. Uploaded on YouTube in 2016, I don’t know its provenance although I assume it was made for tv and seems to contain some running commentary. Need I say ? I hardly know more […]
2015 ‘Rockabilly lovers’ cartoon clip
Here’s a students’ animation project from 2015 (LISAA, Paris). For those who don’t understand French this is the story : two guys at an American diner discuss how to atract girls, the answer is a rock’n’roll guitar …
Gene Vincent tribute performances
His heyday was 1956-64, mostly with the Bluecaps in the States then in England and France in the early 1960s. He died in 1971 . Gene Vincent is gone but his music keeps being resuscitated and lives on! We’ve collected some of the best captured performances since then (there are many more but the recording […]
1980s Brest teds
Brest, major naval seaport of western France, situated at the western end of Brittany, the Celtic part of France, was one of the hotspots of the rock’n’roll revival in France in the 1970s and 1980s and for a few years it was – rockingly speaking – a wonderful place to be ! The kernel of […]
When others get it wrong – bopping
While not being too restrictive in our views and in the process snuffing individuality, we’ve got to highlight when something concerning our lifestyle, attire, music and dance is misrepresented, and not too put too fine a word on it debased. Today it’s the turn of the bop and specifically the teddy-boy bop of the 1960s, […]
Were the 1950s teds colourful or not?
Perennial debate in teddy boy circles: are teddy boys supposed to wear colourful drapes or not? No doubt they were more colourful in the 1970s revival than in the 1950s but did the 1950s teds wear colourful drapes or not? Difficult question to answer seeing that just about 99% of photos taken in 1950s Britain […]
