Music/Dance/Reads

‘once a ted’ by Johnny and the Timebombs somewhere in England 2018  

1961 ‘twenty flight rock’ from a Pathé newsclip ‘twenty flight rock’ from a Scopitone 1961 ‘shakin’ all over’ from a Scopitone 1961 ‘baby, let’s play house’ from a Scopitone 1961 ‘trouble’ from a scopitone 1961 ‘trouble’ (longer low quality version of the same clip) ‘too much’ 1961 ‘twenty flight rock’ with a weird open-air shower scene from an […]

Scouring the internet, one can come across performances that make one ashamed that they are associated with rock’n’roll. The first clip will take some beating coming as it does from a 1983 episode of the abysmal ‘Little & Large Show’. X

The Chats Sauvages (‘Wild Cats’) was a group from Nice which existed between 1960 and May 1964 and are considered the third of the big three rock’n’roll performers after Johnny Hallyday and the Chaussettes Noires. In August 1962, after barely over a year touring and promoting and yet another argument with the Roboly brothers, the original […]

CHK http://www.cliffrichardsongs.com/crseries/ 15.Nov.1958 on ‘Oh Boy!’ (ATV) 1959.May.02  ‘turn me loose’ on ‘Oh Boy!’ (ATV) 1959.May ‘Serious Charge’ ‘no turning back’ & ‘living doll’ (upbeat) David Rayner The film ‘Serious Charge’ was passed with an ‘X’ certificate by the British Board of Film Censors on March 10th, 1959. Add say a month or two of post production […]

First spotted in Harlow town centre in May 2017, the ‘mystery black buskin’ boppin’ ted’ for want of a better name sets up his sound system and gets down to bopping. The person who shot this clip wrote: ‘I came across this wonderful guy in Harlow, in Essex. I tried to talk to him, but […]