Like Mark Lamarr, he has to put up with a lot of fun being made of his hair (see this).
The Weekender Era
And they went off the rails … 5 – 1990s Line dancing, refugees from country music
The ‘Stroll’ The ‘Madison’ Per Morgensen aka Per Rock (YTcomm 2021), a lindyhopper enthusiast and dance teacher noticed that “the Stroll today in the rockabilly environment is very different to The Stroll from the 50´s . More like a ‘Line dance’.”
1990s The rise of the jive bunnies
Everywhere you hear teds complaining about the takeover of their nights by ‘jive bunnies’.
And they went off the rails … 4 – 1980 Psychobillies, refugees from punk
There wasn’t enough fibre in the original punk explosion of 1976-77 so it is hardly surprising that it would soon to split into a number of streams such as new wave and hardcore punk (oi!). In the wake of the ruins of punk emerged other musical styles : a mod revival, the ‘two tone’ ska […]
And they went off the rails … 3 – 1980 Neo-rockabilly
The neo-rockabillies, one of the fads that left the straight and not so narrow teddy-boy/rockabilly path, were an offshoot of the hepcat tendency in the late 1970s, albeit with a modern rather than a recreationist outlook. One of the giveaways of the neo-rockabillies was their bouffant lacquered hairstyle and their use of eyeliner which tended […]
And they went off the rails … 2 – 1980 Hillbilly bop
= hillbilly boogie, western swing, honky tonk