The revival of rock’n’roll in Britain in 1968 was noticed by tv and came in the shape of ‘Rock’n’roll Revival?’ an episode of the series ‘Good Evening’ (shown on ATV on Saturday at 6:30pm) hosted by the annoying and smug Jonathan King. I’ve edited two excerpts from the videos below so that no one has […]
The Colourful Era
1974-84 ‘Happy Days’
Which each season approximating a year, the timeline of the series roughly represented the years 1955 to 1965. Series 5 which was supposed to be 1959 sees the introduction of Chachi with his flowing 70s hairstyle (in series 6 he became a main character). Winkler opened up about how an act of rebellion led […]
1976-83 ‘Laverne and Shirley’
‘Happy Days’, the favourite American tv series of anyone who was into rock’n’roll during the 1970s, was starting to lose its edge in late 1977, with its fifth series, but luckily there was a saviour in the shape of a spin-off comedy series ‘Laverne and Shirley’ which chronicled the everyday adventures and mishaps of two young […]
1970-2020 Crazy Cavan and the Rhythm Rockers
‘Crazy’ Cavan Grogan has just died last February and it is time to pay a special tribute to him and the Rhythm Rockers on this site and not just because I’m Welsh! I borrowed their Charly LP about 1978 or 1979 from my friend Carmine and learnt from him they were from Wales. We lived […]
Mid-1980s rock’n’roll scene in France
Almost in the same way as the rock’n’roll craze of the fifties became known as the sixties (années soixante) in French, because of the time lag which saw rock’n’roll onlrevival y take off as a mass phenomenon in 1960, the British 1970s rock’n’roll revival was almost a wholly 1980s phenomenon in France. If the 1970s […]
Peter Singh, the Rockin’ Sikh
You all know what song is associated with the opening lines ‘well, it’s a one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready now go, cat, go!’, well there’s another opening line that deserves to be remembered just as much if only for its originality: ‘I don’t smoke dope, I don’t drink […]
