Retro, Vintage 2012 ‘Rock on (and on) (and on): The never-ending Fifties Revival’ http://retromaniafootnotes.blogspot.ie/2012/05/800×600-normal-0-false-false-false-en_7061.html current versus catalogue (oldies) music on sale 2015 marked an interesting milestone in the history of the U.S. music industry. For the first time ever, current releases accounted for less than half of total album sales in the United States […]
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Are teds racist?
This gruesome symbolic cartoon published in the Daily Mail shortly after the Notting Hill riots in 1958 powerfully illustrates how the worst kinds of violence could be associated with the teddy boy dress styles. There is no doubt that the teddy boys of the 1950s could be capable of the worst kinds of violence. Neither […]
Great rock’n’roll links
A little word here, some of these sites are no longer attainable. Let’s chance a guess ; an older bloke with a lifetime passion and dedication sets up a web-site and then one day they are hospitalised or they die. Result, whatever payments to keep their site running soon stop and the website is forever […]
Existential teddy-boy rock’n’roll angst
‘The ‘I got the I can’t quite work out what being a ted is all about’ blues’ Of course, rock’n’roll is not known for its intellectualism, or even – come to think of it – for simply thinking about things: it’s simply the spirit, you gotta dash, the blood is boiling, go man go! But […]
