In 1976 when I got into the music – a tender 12 year-old – it was ‘rock’n’roll’. As a late 70s ted in the music’s revival in Britain I was still into ‘rock’n’roll’, at the dawn of the 1980s when I got my first drape jacket I continued to love ‘rock’n’roll’, and now, approaching my […]
1994 ‘Tear it Up! The Rockabilly Documentary’
As short as it is, this short 18-minute documentary from 1994 by Greg Wolske of Columbus (Ohio), is the best introduction to rockabilly music around. Rather than the planned film, this is a taster of a more ambitious project which has not yet – it would seem – been completed. This taster contains some testimonies […]
And they went off on their motorbikes … – 1959 Ton-up Boys & 1964 Rockers
Ton-up Boys, Cafe Racers, Rockers, ? Milk Bar Cowboys
And they went off the rails … 0 – Why these articles?
Some word of explanation needs to be given for the series of articles ‘And they went of the rails …?’. Rock’n’roll of itself is – and should always – be inclusive, but that said Teds can be prickly as to what counts as rock’n’roll music and to what counts as rock’n’roll hairstyle and sartorial practice. […]
And they went off the rails … 6 – 1975 Confederate Rebels
The Confederate Rebel look for some teds never became dominant anywhere but seems to have started as something of a fun prank in 1975 when some 250 south London teds – after too much drink, no doubt – resurrected the Confederate States of America under their president Sunglasses Ron and promptly declared war on the […]
1974 Shakin’ Stevens in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
A sprinkling of teds at the performance by Shakin’ Stevens and the Sunsets of ‘mean woman blues’ and ‘baby, I don’t care’ on the 7 of November 1974 on the pop programme ‘Geordie Scene’ on TyneTees tv. Good performance by shaky, marred a little by the overlong guitar ‘showoff’ solo typical of the late 1960s […]