Lonnie Donegan
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Lonnie Donegan: The first (and last) skiffler keeps one jump ahead...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 16 June 1962
LONNIE DONEGAN was the apostle of skiffle, an ephemeral art form if ever there was one. He is its sole survivor. ...
Hello Me Ol' Mateys: the BBC's Saturday Club
Retrospective by Spencer Leigh, Now Dig This, March 2006
Spencer Leigh returns to the BBC Written Archives for an appraisal of Saturday Club. ...
Lonnie Donegan: The Lonnie Donegan File (Pye)
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 17 December 1977
TAKES YOU back a bit, doesn't it? I'd almost thought the world had forgotten about Lonnie Donegan. Which was really a crying shame since Donegan, ...
New albums from Sly & the Family Stone, Quicksilver et al
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 26 July 1969
New Sly & Family Stone LP begins where other R&B LP's leave off ...
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 28 July 1956
ALEXIS KORNER tells Max Jones ...
Report by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 10 March 1962
— A FOLLOW-UP TO 'DUSTMAN' ...
Star Of The Week — No. 7: Lonnie Donegan
Profile by Ian Dove, Record Mirror, 29 April 1961
LONNIE DONEGAN'S new single — to be released on May 3 — is 'Take a Drink On Me'. It is an adaptation of an old ...
Lonnie Donegan: Palace Theatre, Manchester
Live Review by uncredited writer, New Musical Express, 4 May 1962
RIP-ROARING DONEGAN! ...
Cover Personality: Lonnie Donegan
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 26 September 1959
LONNIE DONEGAN was rehearsing for a TV show when I tracked him down. He was in one of his usual good moods and greeted me ...
Lonnie Donegan: The House Built on Skiffle (for £11,000)
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 23 May 1959
THIS WEEK'S Cover Personality has not tried "sticking his chewing gum on the bedpost overnight." "I would not dare," says Lonnie Donegan. "I have just ...
Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Lonnie Donegan: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 15 April 1961
CLIFF, SHADOWS TOPS IN BEAT SHOW ...
Rock Routes: The London R&B Scene
Retrospective by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, February 1973
AT A TIME when most receptive organs — eyes, ears, pockets — were turned to Liverpool and its Merseybeat, another (and as it turned out ...
Lonnie Donegan: Lonnie takes 'Dustman' to U.S.
Report and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 28 September 1962
I MANAGED to catch Lonnie Donegan — but only just! — before he left this country for his third visit to America on Sunday. ...
Ken Colyer and the Birth of Skiffle
Book Excerpt by Various Writers, Goin' Home (The Ken Colyer Trust), December 2010
This an excerpt from Goin' Home: The Uncompromising Life and Music of Ken Colyer, published by the Ken Colyer Foundation. ...
Lonnie Donegan: Will The Circle Really Be Unbroken?
Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 4 February 1978
LONNIE DONEGAN'S life seemed to have completed such a perfect full circle that it could almost prove even the dumbest hippy's half-assed theories of a ...
The Grim Reporter December 2002
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, December 2002
Phast Phreddie Patterson on those gone but not forgotten ...
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