The Restless Generation: How rock music changed the face of 1950s Britain

The Restless Generation: How Rock Music Changed the Face of 1950s Brit

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    Bill Colyer Ken's brother dismisses Barber with "he's got an accountant's mind" and says their music wasn't jazz, just "Mickey Mouse Clinic music". Those kinds of -isms and schisms between purists, progressives, letter writers to music magazines and fellow travelllers makes for an amusing view of just how small and petty this world was.

    It is those who got up a head of steam and wrote to the likes of NME and Melody Maker who provide the most fun. Here is a record shop owner and jazz fan sounding off about the skiffle kids taking over jazz clubs. The irony is of course that this "true jazz" was faux-Dixie played by musicians who had rarely met a black musician let alone been to America.

    The notable exception was the courageously itinerant Ken Colyer who headed off to New Orleans, played with black musicians and was thrown in jail for doing so and return ablaze with the spirit.

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    But mostly Britain carried on as usual -- the -isms and schisms in the jazz world -- until Lonnie Donegan took skiffle to new heights with the improbable hit Rock Island Line. It's about a train driver in the States who fools the tax inspector, the revenue man, by telling him that his freight train contains only live animals which are not subject to a levy. Exhilarated the engineer speeds off down the track'. What publisher is going to to fall for that?

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    Well, a whole nation did and Donegan became a star, further dividing the jazz and folk worlds. He went tot the States and had enormous success there also.

    Frame's story is full of telling and often funny anecdotes, he reminds how insular Britain was the Musicians Union wouldn't let Chet Baker play his trumpet but he was allowed to sing , and it is peppered with real characters like Ramblin' Jack Elliot , Leftist and graffiti pioneer John Hasted, roues like Lionel Bart who couldn't read or write music but penned Oliver! When it was played in a blindfold test to various indiustry people they said it was great -- but British studios could never get a sound that good.

    With digressions into long forgotten pop movies and the tragic stories of could-have-been stars, this is a fascinating book -- but too often, especially when it comes into the world Frame remembers, the author's voice comes through with annoying and stupid interjections.

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    Yes, some of the soongs were naff and those pronouncing the end of rock'n'roll were naive and stupid, but Frame always feels the need to remind us of this in his own words. There are a few mistakes -- Jimmy Nicol didn't come to New Zealand later with the Beatles -- but the accumulation of detail and voices is impressive. The real pity is that there are no photographs, not one to let us see these artists and this era which Frame loves so much.

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