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Teddy boys playing music at the Queens Hotel, 1977 Teddy boys walking on a busy street, 1977. The Teddy Boys or Teds were a mainly British youth subculture of the early 1950s to mid-1960s who were interested in rock and roll and R&B music, wearing clothes partly inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the Edwardian period, which Savile Row tailors had attempted to re-introduce in Britain ...
Often, comedians of the day or music hall personalities would sing novelty recordings backed by well-known British dance band leaders. [3] Some of the British dance band leaders and musicians went on to fame in the United States in the swing era. [4] Thanks to Britain's continuing ballroom dancing tradition and its recording copyright laws ...
This article is a list of people who led their own British dance band (distinct from British big band leaders, who played big band music). It includes those performers who were not British, but led a band based in Britain. [1
Music Hall, Britain's first form of commercial mass entertainment, emerged, broadly speaking, in the mid-19th century, and ended (arguably) after the First World War, when the halls rebranded their entertainment as Variety. [1]
Jazz began to be played by British musicians from the 1930s and on a widespread basis in the 1940s, often within dance bands. From the late 1950s British "modern jazz", highly influenced by American bebop, began to emerge, led by figures such as John Dankworth and Ronnie Scott, while Ken Colyer, George Webb and Humphrey Lyttelton emphasised New ...
As numerous British rock bands of the mid-1960s began to adopt a mod look and following, [22] the scope of the subculture grew beyond its original confines and the focus began to change. By 1966, proletarian aspects of the scene in London had waned as fashion and pop-culture elements continued to grow, not only in England, but elsewhere.
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