‘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 […]
The Colourful Era
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 […]
1976-1985 Les Alligators
Alain Chennevière (1959-) En 1971, a l’âge de 12 ans, Alain Chennevière découvre le Rock and Roll des années cinquante en regardant l’émission “Point chaud” d’Albert Raisner, un extrait de “Be-Bop-A-Lula” tiré du film “La blonde et moi” (The Girl Can’t Help It) y était diffusé en hommage à Gene Vincent décédé le 12 octobre 1971. En 1976, Alain […]
Early 1970s rock’n’roll bands
Hard to believe that people with long bedraggled hair and intellectual-looking baldies liked rock’n’roll once and that it wasn’t compulsory to have a quiff in the early 1970s. When you think about it, it doesn’t make sense that you should have a particular hairstyle to like a particular music, but that’s reckoning without the teds […]
