A really early clip of Les Forbans (‘The Hoodlums’) dating to the 23 of March 1978 from ‘Les 24 Jeudis’ on TF1. The group had only been set up 4 months previously. The recording set-up is awful but not enough to hide their amateurishness. Don’t give up after the first video clip however, the group […]
The Colourful Era
1980s Jesse Garon, French rocker
Jesse Garon, not to be confused with the American jesse Garon, Elvis impersonator, is a French rocker. ‘teddy boy rockabilly’ (1984) ‘c’est lundi’ (‘it’s Monday’) ‘nous deux’ (‘the both of us’) ‘nous deux’ (live) ‘Carole’ (198?)
1973 ‘where are they now?’ The Kinks
The Kinks’ song ‘where are they now?’ was recorded in May-July of 1973 and released in November 1973 as their rock opera concept album ‘Preservation: Act 1’ (A-4), one of the sequels to their much better known concept album The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society of 1968. From its inception, Davies considered the album […]
1977 Punks vs teds
A very short clip from the Kinolibrary collection,obviously 1977 or thereafter. An example of how the ted-punk rivalry wasn’t all about fighting. Kim Holland (YTcomm) 2017 “Not the kings road. This is cardiff. I know the teddy boy. It.s steve.” The punks’ accents are London-like but the little we hear of the ted (at 0:09) […]
1982 Terry and the Hot Sox with some teds
In this performance of ‘Hamburg’ on the tv programmme ‘Musik und Gäste’ dated to 22 of January 1982, Zürich novelty rockers Terry and the Hot Sox are accompanied by some pretty authentic teds. Check out some of the best preserved bopping moves on film. Don’t know much about the group, they seem to have been […]
1970 The Teen Angel (7-Up adverts)
Before the Fonz, the 50s greaser had been revived as the Teen Angel in a series of adverts for 7-Up. These were very successful. The actor Mandy Patinkin (1952-) was just graduating from High School in 1970 when the adverts were shot. The story is explained in the following video Atomicflash5004 years ago this commercial […]