Skiffle
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Ken Colyer, Lonnie Donegan, Alexis Korner: Skiffle or Piffle?
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 28 July 1956
ALEXIS KORNER tells Max Jones ...
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 ...
Lonnie 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 ...
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 15 April 1961
CLIFF, SHADOWS TOPS IN BEAT SHOW ...
Lonnie Donegan: 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: What Lonnie Needs Now
Report by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 10 March 1962
— A FOLLOW-UP TO 'DUSTMAN' ...
Lonnie Donegan: Palace Theatre, Manchester
Live Review by uncredited writer, New Musical Express, 4 May 1962
RIP-ROARING DONEGAN! ...
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. ...
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 26 July 1969
New Sly & Family Stone LP begins where other R&B LP's leave off ...
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, ...
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 Quarrymen: The Beatles? No, thanks
Retrospective and Interview by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 20 January 2005
The Quarrymen managed to let Lennon, McCartney and Harrison slip through their fingers. Nearly five decades after that mistake, they are releasing their first album. ...
Chris Barber: Father of British R&B
Retrospective by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages, 28 September 2009
BY 1963, EVERYONE I knew had a TV. Two black-and-white channels: the one that was on and "the other side". So when the Rolling Stones ...
Ken Colyer, Lonnie Donegan: 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. ...
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