In 1973, young television reporter Chris Tarrant went to see some teds in Yardley, Birmingham, and conducted an interview with them. Tarrant would very soon become a tv fixture presenting the children’s Saturday morning programme ‘Tiswas’ which launched in January 1974 but he always seems to have had more than a passing interest in pop […]
The Colourful Era
1976 ‘The Rock and Roll Revival’ episode of The Goodies
The television episode ‘The Rock and Roll Revival’ aka ‘Hype Pressure’ by the Goodies was first broadcast on the 28 of September 1976 and included a parody of the teddy boy/rock’n’roll revival. Tim’s nasty tv talent show is a flop after Bill and Graeme’s folk singing is a hit with the judges, so Tim sets […]
1976-79 Chris Steele-Perkins, photographer of teds
Chris Steele-Perkins (1947-) is one of the most unlikely candidates to have been the supreme photographic chronicler of the teds of the mid-to-late 1970s. Perhaps his photos stand out from the usual posing and smug curiosity of the newspapers of the time, local and national, who would only allow a couple of days to write […]
1975-78 Yan Morvan, photographer of Blousons Noirs
Parisian Yan Morvan (1954-) made a After Yan Morvan published his first photobook Le Cuir et la Baston in 1974, a group of Hells Angels unhappy with how they’d been portrayed came and peppered his house with shotgun shells. At this point, most aspiring photographers would have considered reverting to shooting landscapes and butterflies – but not […]
1977 Whence the rockabilly rebels?
1974 ‘rockabilly star’ Crazy Cavan and the Rhythm Rockers (refs Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis) 1976 ‘rockabilly earthquake’ Shakin’ Stevens and the Sunsets 1977 ‘rcokabilly bop’ Cadillac 1979 ‘high-rise rockabilly’ The Polecats 1979 ‘rockabilly guy’ The Polecats 1979 ‘rockabilly rebel’ Matchbox 1979 ‘rcokabilly twist’ Vernon and the GIs 1979 ‘touch o’ rockabilly’ Teddy and the […]
1969-2022 Sha Na Na
2023 YTcomm *joeroberts248 Arguably the spark that lit the fire of 50s nostalgia that would be a big part the culture for the next decade-plus. 2022 @eljefescientist5726 Pioneers of a worldwide nostalgia movement that includes American Graffiti, Grease & Fonzie, whose leather jacket is in the Smithsonian — all occurring AFTER this performance. 2015 YTcomm […]