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 […]
Portraits
‘Rockin’ Ronny Weiser (1946-)
From his pictures and his life, Ronny Weiser seems a bit mad, and int his case that is a good thing. Rockin’ Ronny Weiser Interview byJeremy Weiser URL: http://rockinroll.tripod.com/ronny.html JW-Jeremy Weiser; RW-Ronny Weiser The man who brang back rockabilly!!!! JW-When did you hear your first rockabilly song?RW- I guess it was “Rock Around The Clock” by Bill […]
‘Breathless’ Dan Coffey (1943-2016)
How could have rock’n’roll revived after the 1950s without people like Dan Coffey of Newport in South Wales? Someone sometime would have got round to it, no doubt, but how is it that it fell to this Newport lad to pioneer the rediscovery of a magic era in American music? Dan was with still with […]
Iwan Wmffre (1964-), West Wales ted
As initiator of this website, you might as well want to know a little about me. Nothing extraordinary, just one individual’s journey into becoming a ted. What to say about myself? Well, first my surname will probably flummox anybody who’s not Welsh although a seller at Brown’s of Chester said to his perplexed colleague “It’s […]
