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Pages in category "Musicals set in the 1950s" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Bésame mucho, el musical; Blood Brothers (musical)
Music of the United Kingdom began to develop in the 1950s; from largely insular and derivative forms to become one of the leading centres of popular music in the modern world. By 1950 indigenous forms of British popular music, including folk music, brass and silver bands, music hall and dance bands, were already giving way to the influence of ...
In the early 1950s blues music was largely known in Britain through blues-influenced boogie-woogie, and the jump blues of Fats Waller and Louis Jordan. [9] Imported recordings of American artists were brought over by African American servicemen stationed in Britain during and after World War II, merchant seamen visiting the ports of London, Liverpool, Newcastle on Tyne and Belfast, and in a ...
British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s, and reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s. In Britain, blues developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar, and made international stars of several proponents of the genre, including the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Yardbirds, John Mayall, Eric ...
In the 1950s, Radio in the UK was almost exclusively in the hands of the BBC. Popular music was only played on the Light Programme, and the playing of records was heavily restricted by "needle time" arrangements. Nevertheless, American rock and roll acts became a major force in the UK chart.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (musical) Schwestern im Geiste; The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (musical) The Secret Garden (musical) SherWoodstock; Smike; Something's Afoot; A Song to Sing, O; Spend Spend Spend; Splinters (revue) Standing at the Sky's Edge (musical) Starter for Ten (musical) Sullivan and Gilbert; The Sunshine Girl; Sylvia ...
In the 1950s, Britain was well placed to receive American rock and roll music and culture. It shared a common language, had been exposed to American culture through the stationing of troops in the country, and shared many social developments, including the emergence of distinct youth sub-cultures, which in Britain included the Teddy Boys . [ 3 ]
The musical continued to tour for a few decades in Britain, receiving its last major revival in 1934, [3] although lesser productions continued into the 1950s, [9] and it was popular with amateur theatre groups, particularly in Britain, from World War I into the 1960s.