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 ...

Scottish musician Lonnie Donegan, who spearheaded the “skiffle” music craze of the 1950s that inspired John Lennon, Paul McCartney and scores of other teens to take up the guitar and start their own ...

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 ...

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 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - “Sol do la fa mi do re, sol do la si do re do...” . Terts musical group from Makassar performed ‘Do Re Mi’ to close their appearance at the ‘Bunyi Bunyi Perhalaman edisi #6’ ...

“Skiffle” is a genre of music from turn of the last century New Orleans. It is a conglomerate/derivative form of music that was used to embrace the differnet ...

The British singer-songwriter's latest project is a book about the Skiffle scene called Roots, Radicals and Rockers (out now). Skiffle, for those who don't know, is a U.K. version of folk and blues ...

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 ...

Lonnie Donegan, a musician whose "skiffle" sound inspired John Lennon and Pete Townshend to learn to play guitar, has died. Donegan died yesterday (Nov. 3) in Peterborough, central England, while on… ...

VAN Morrison's forthcoming album Moving On Skiffle, his 44th long-player, takes him back to some of his earlier inspirations and his boyhood home of Hyndford Street in east Belfast. I visited the ...