Lonnie Donegan, a musician whose ” skiffle ” sound inspired John Lennon and Pete Townshend to learn to play guitar, died Sunday in Peterborough, central England, while on a tour of Britain, publicist ...

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Growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Van Morrison would hang out at his local record shop, Atlantic Records, and consume all the early 20th century blues, jazz, and folk from the likes of Jelly ...

Van Morrison's life-long love of skiffle music dates back to childhood, first hearing Lead Belly and Jelly Roll Morton in Belfast's record store Atlantic Records, and then forming his first skiffle ...

Davies – now in partnership with fellow blues enthusiast Alexis Korner – grew increasingly dissatisfied with skiffle and in March 1957 the duo renamed The London Skiffle Centre as The Blues and ...