15:31, Fri, Nov 13, 2020 Updated: 15:32, Fri, Nov 13, 2020 The Beatles and many other bands headed to the USA in the 1960s and penetrated the music industry. This was a major thing, and it was duly ...

TORONTO — Skiffle may have been short-lived, but Billy Bragg says the 1950s British music craze that laid the groundwork for bands like the Beatles is deserving of greater recognition in the annals of ...

The Beatles” music picks me up when I”m down. After I listen to, say, “Revolver,” “Beatles For Sale,” or “The Beatles,” aka The White Album, I invariably feel better. For a few moments after the ...

Years before the underground Liverpudlian club would become synonymous with the Beatles, the Quarrymen made their Cavern Club debut on August 7, 1957. Led by John Lennon (Paul McCartney was away at ...

From early days in skiffle bands to being a member of one of the most influential rock outfits of all time, Ringo Starr has amassed a career that has spanned over 60 years. CelebrityNetwork.com counts ...

When World War II ended for Britain, so did the trappings of a traditional working-class identity. Full employment coupled with expansive welfare provisions diluted a historical class consciousness ...

The word skiffle dates from the 1920s - although it is a cause of some argument as to who coined it and how it stuck to the music it now describes. Some say it came from a 1929 track, authors unknown, ...

Type the word "skiffle" into a document and you might get a red squiggly line and an auto-correct suggestion of "scuffle," which is a fighting word indeed to Billy Bragg. The Essex-born ...

It has also seen him anointed as an heir to Woody Guthrie, the late great journalist and song-maker, the Dust Bowl balladeer who, more than half a century ago, wrote a song about a little-known ...

Lonnie Donegan, the “king of skiffle” music, died Sunday in Peterborough, England, at the age of seventy-one. Although the exact cause of death is not known, Donegan had suffered several heart attacks ...

Every musical movement needs its breeding ground, and for the Merseybeat boom that birthed the Beatles, it was a former bomb shelter in the basement of a fruit warehouse. The Cavern Club, located at ...