From an Italian film titled ‘Europa di Notte’ (‘Europe by Night’ or ‘European Nights’ at its American release in 1963) (1959) looking at nightlife in European capitals Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more. Premiered in February 1959 A potpourri of contemporary nightclub acts, in Europe.Episodes presenting famous artists and people performing. EUROPA DI NOTTE […]
The Golden Era
October 1961 – the day the Beatles killed the quiff
It’s well-known that the Beatles killed the quiff, but the story of how it happened can do with a retelling of the events surrounding that fateful day for us teds in Paris in October 1961. The Beatles were of course often referred to as ‘the Mop-Tops’ at the height of their fame fame between 1963 […]
1958 ‘We are the Lambeth Boys’
No doubt the single best example of British teenage life in the 1950s, ‘We are the Lambeth Boys’ (1959) was filmed in the summer of 1958. It pictures the social and work life of the youth on one estate in Kennington in the London borough of Lambeth. Its ordinariness shows clearly that not all teenage […]
1959 Teds and Rude Boys
The ‘teddy boy calypso (bring back the cat-o’-nine)’, a 1959 recording on Pye by Lord Invader and his Calypso Rhythm Boys. the only thing to stop these hooligans from causing panic in Great Britain, the only thing to stop these teddy boys from causing panic in England, well I hope that the Government see they […]
1973 ‘Une vie comme ça’ (‘Such a Life’)
In 1973, in the comic weekly Pilote, the cartoonist Jean Solé drew a 3-page story about a blouson noir which he entitled ‘Une vie comme ça’ (‘Such a Life’). It’s a condensed masterpiece which sums up the lives of the stereotypical blouson noir of the early 1960s. Solé was born in 1948 and so was […]
2011 ‘Here come the Teds’ UKTV (parts 1-2)
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