50s Britannia

Long before the Beatles there was British rock 'n' roll. Between 1956 and 1960 British youth created a unique copy of a distant and scarce American original whilst most parents, professional jazz men and even the BBC did their level best to snuff it out. 　　From its first faltering steps as a facsimile of Bill Haley's swing style to the sophistication of self-penned landmarks such...