A home-made video showing rockabilly fans in Liverpool in 1988.
The Weekender Era
1990 ‘Oh, Sweet Mystery of Rock’ Brean Sands weekender, Somerset
The half-hour video ‘Oh, Sweet Mystery of Rock, Where are You?’ was filmed at a rock’n’roll weekender at the Brean Sands Pontins resort, Somerset, in November 1989 and was first aired on BBC2 on the 26th of July 1990 (to be repeated 4 times: 23.09.1991 on BBC2 | 16.04.2002 & 18.94.2002 on BBC4 | 04.10.2004 […]
Near-Ted 1 Mark Lamarr (1967-)
Born Mark Jones and brought up in Swindon, Lamarr dropped out of school aged 17 in 1984 and came to Harrow, London, where he joined the local rockabilly scene. Between 1995 and 1997 he appeared as a team captain in the surreal panel show ‘Shooting Stars’, where he displayed a mixture of dour boredom and […]
1980s The cats of Paris
