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The Golden Era
1959-63 The Blousons Noirs
If you don’t want any analysis of the Blousons Noirs (‘The Black Jackets’), the French equivalents of the teddy boys just watch the following clip:Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT. 1959 Square Saint Lambert, Paris 1963 Paris Match article ‘We are all Blousons […]
1963 Teds in Pontypridd
The Valleys is the usual name of the densely populated mining coalfields of south-eastern Wales in the hinterlands of the port metropolises of Swansea, Cardiff and Newport. The well-known Welsh historian Gwyn Alf Williams described all of south-eastern Wales – his region – as ‘American Wales’ based on the fact that the ‘uprooted’ population was […]
1956 The only ted who got to be friends with Elvis
Tom Jones, tuxedoed ladies’ man superstar balladeer of the 1960s, started life as plain old Tommy John Woodward in mining village of Trefforest next to Pontypridd, self-styled capital of the Welsh Valleys. Born in 1940, he was the right age to be amongst the initial generation who discovered rock’n’roll in 1955 when he left school. […]
1960s teds, Nelson, South Wales
I’ve been trying to show that – or at least to find out how long – ted and rock’n’roll fashion styles subsisted amongst young men into 1960s Britain, in the ‘provinces’ if not in south-eastern England, the London hinterland. But, frankly, if you weren’t there, it can be impossible to grasp what was going on […]
1960 ‘Living for Kicks’
1960 ‘Living for kicks’ documentary (see link below) Journalist Daniel Farson broke into television in 1957 when he hosted an interview with Cecil Beaton for AR-TV’s This Week. The company rewarded his charm and quick-witted interview technique by giving him his own series ‘People in Trouble’ (1958) and ‘Out of Step’ (1959), but it is […]