It isn’t very often that one of the very finest drummers in all of pop/rock drops by into your sleepy little town to open up a community garden, but that’s precisely what happened today in my hometown of Rawtenstall.
Fair enough, very few of you are likely to have heard of this town, but the majority of you will have heard of Bobby Elliott, drummer of legendary band The Hollies from the 1960′s onward. Not an original member of the bands lineup (Elliott replaced Don Rathbone as the groups drummer after a few single releases), he has recorded with almost no other band since joining in 1963.
Elliott was born in the same hometown as myself, Burnley, in 1941 and discovered jazz from a very early age. A self-taught drummer, he realised he wanted to play the drums from the age of 10, and practiced with homemade brushes and sticks,...
Fair enough, very few of you are likely to have heard of this town, but the majority of you will have heard of Bobby Elliott, drummer of legendary band The Hollies from the 1960′s onward. Not an original member of the bands lineup (Elliott replaced Don Rathbone as the groups drummer after a few single releases), he has recorded with almost no other band since joining in 1963.
Elliott was born in the same hometown as myself, Burnley, in 1941 and discovered jazz from a very early age. A self-taught drummer, he realised he wanted to play the drums from the age of 10, and practiced with homemade brushes and sticks,...
- 10/6/2012
- by Joseph Dempsey
- Obsessed with Film
Cliff Richard and the Shadows were Pathé's perfect poster boys for pop when it decided to boost its coverage in the early 60s
In the early 60s, Pathé ramped up its pop coverage. Once the Age of the Teenager had been established, youth became worthy of coverage and even traditional news sources followed suit. As we've seen, Pathé had some youth culture reportage during the second half of the 50s but from 1961 on, the trickle turned to a flood. And who better to represent this shift than the biggest homegrown star of the period?
Cliff Richard and the Shadows ruled British pop from spring 1959 to spring 1963. During that period they had, separately and together, 27 top 10 singles – including 12 No 1s. There were also two massively successful films, The Young Ones and Summer Holiday, with their associated soundtracks: in both cases the lead-off singles and the albums went to No 1.
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In the early 60s, Pathé ramped up its pop coverage. Once the Age of the Teenager had been established, youth became worthy of coverage and even traditional news sources followed suit. As we've seen, Pathé had some youth culture reportage during the second half of the 50s but from 1961 on, the trickle turned to a flood. And who better to represent this shift than the biggest homegrown star of the period?
Cliff Richard and the Shadows ruled British pop from spring 1959 to spring 1963. During that period they had, separately and together, 27 top 10 singles – including 12 No 1s. There were also two massively successful films, The Young Ones and Summer Holiday, with their associated soundtracks: in both cases the lead-off singles and the albums went to No 1.
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- 8/23/2012
- by Jon Savage
- The Guardian - Film News
Jet Harris, original bass player of the British pop band The Shadows, has died at the age of 71. Harris's agent Peter Stockton confirmed that the musician passed away at his partner's home in Winchester, after battling an undisclosed form of cancer. Upon hearing news of his former bandmate's death, Sir Cliff Richard paid tribute to the musician who he described as having been the core of the band. "Jet was exactly what The Shadows and I needed - a backbone (more)...
- 3/19/2011
- by By Tom Ayres
- Digital Spy
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