The Saint Helier Arms was the Mecca of rock’n’roll life in Sarf Lannan during the late 1970s. Here’s an 8-minute clip from 1978 aired on the BBC in 1979 showing us a good tranche of the teds from 1978 before the advent of the hepcats (it features a performance by the Flying Saucers of ‘keep […]
The rockin’ sax
Illinois Jacquet, Red Prysock, Big Jay McNeely one-note solos, altissimo squeals 1942 ‘flying home’ featuring Illinois Jacquet in Lionel Hampton’s band. audiences went wild for the aggressive, exciting, primal, frenzied, raw, screeching, in contrast to smooth, fluid, dense, cerebral improvisations of be-boppers such as Charlie Parker. sax battles at the Jazz at the Philharmonic
1959 ‘Six O’Clock Rock’ Aussie rock’n’roll tv show
1955 BBC documentary on teddy boys
1983 London Hepcats on ‘The 6 o’clock Show’
Here is an unedited half-an-hour footage of a report by Paula Yates for LWT’s ‘The 6 o’clock Show’ on the rock’n’roll movement in London in 1983. We see the Cheeks nightclub in Deptford. Here’s an enticing piece of information by God-knows who *jlittlecarl uploaded as a YT comment about 2016 “There was another part of […]
1979-84 Caister days photos
Steve Cantlow collected all the pictures he could find of the Caister rock’n’roll weekenders and uploaded them on a YouTube clips accompanied by music … How did he get hold of them all ? Great, well nothing better than to get stuck in, go on have a listen … Thanks, Steve!