This is a new one for me : how come I’m discovering a real treasure trove of doo-wop and rock’n’roll records for the first time in 2025 ? Simply because they only started coming out in the spring of 2024 … Go look and listen for yourself on the YouTube channel of *Don Juan AI […]
2023 ‘This train’ by Alan Power and the Aftershocks
This is basically not a music site, but sometimes a little-known band play a tune in such a way that it deserves its place here. But there is more, it is a text-book example of how to rock up a song, not only through instrumentation and the arrangement, but also through the voice. EXPAND.
1959 ‘No Trams to Lime Street’
Ok, a disclaimer the original film of this drama, broadcast on ITV on the 18 of October 1959, was not kept, and neither was the remake of 1965 broadcast on BBC2 on the 21st of March of that year. All that remains audiovisually is the second remake of 1970, a somewhat experimental musical with many […]
1962 The 59 Club becomes the Rockers’ haven
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All rockers, no teds in early 1964 ?
The Mods and the Rockers coalesced into the most talked-about youth cultures of the day around 1962. Apart from their musical differences, they contrasted in their looks. Mods were smart dressers whereas Rockers wore rough jeans, boots and leathers for motor-biking. The other difference was the hair, Mods had adopted a French bourgeois fashionable look(that’s […]
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