12 September 1959 – 26 February 1960
The Golden Era
1959 ‘Boy Meets Girl’ ITV
1959 ‘Drumbeat’ BBC
1957 The beatniks
In August 1959 Joe Hall and the Corvettes brought out a single ‘bongo-beatin’ beatnik’ who explained : ‘I’m a bongo-beatin’ beatnik and I just don’t dig rock’n’roll / … / no, no, I don’t wanna rock’n’roll / I’d rather stay in my pad and be a bongo-beatin’ daddy-o / … / well, baby, you can’t […]
1957 Colin MacInnes: London urban reality novelist
1958 ‘Les Tricheurs’ (‘The Cheats’)
The same set of youth is portrayed in Marcel Carné’s film Les Tricheurs (‘The Cheaters’) which had its premiere on the 10th October 1958 before gaining an award. The film chronicled the life of a group of well-heeled Parisians qui vivent entre rive gauche de Saint-Germain-des-Prés et rive droite du 16e arrondissement de Paris. “76 bandes de ‘tricheurs’ se […]
