Telegraph obituary Raymond Arthur Gosling was born on May 5 1939 into a cultivated working-class family in Chester. [MYTH] He was brought up at Weston Favell, a village on the outskirts of Northampton. His father was a motor mechanic, his mother a schoolteacher until her marriage, who taught her son at home until, under protest, […]
Portraits
‘Sunglasses’ Ron Staples (1944-97)
Who was Sunglasses Ron ? A character who was London’s ambassador of a genuine rock’n’roll lifestyle as well as an ubiquitous presence on the London teddy boy scene of the the 1970s revival. I can do no better than to send you to the excellent piece on him on the Edwardian Teddy Boy site. Here […]
Alain ‘Ding Dong’ Pourquier (194?–)
By the mid 1960s a handful of French rock’n’roll fans wanted to hear more 50s rock’n’roll and among their number was Alain Pourquier, known to his friends as Ding-Dong. Not all these French rock’n’roll fans music felt the need to adopt a 50s look but one or two did and its instructive to see the […]
Patrice ‘Charlie’ Barbat (194?–2010)
Service militaire 1967-68 11 months in Tahiti, with French airforce Since the late 1960s. the Wild Rockin’ Cats Fan Club of Patrice Barbat. En cette année 1968, il y avait queiques fan clubs, dont ceux de Little Richard (magazine Only Rock), tenu par Michel Thonney, Gene Vincent (I Remember), de Dominique Thura, Buddy Holly (Reminiscing), […]
Roy Williams (1946–)
From Williams ‘Billy’ Jones Rockabilly Underground (2007) The Wild Wax Show (DJs) I asked Roy Williams how Wild Wax started. ‘I started with Tongue Tied Danny. Then my brother-in-law Stuart took over and Jailhouse John came in later.’ Wild Wax were the god’s of the 70s Rock and Roll revival. They held a residency at […]
Brian Rushgrove (1947-)
There are many good things one can say about Brian Rushgrove but above all he stands out as the historian of the teds. 2020 exhibition on the teds at Bradford cancelled due to the Covid 19 virus pandemic. Brian compares the age of the contemporary rockin’ scenes in England and other European countries in 2007 […]
