WHAT WAS skiffle?
Seventy years ago, in July 1954, Lonnie Donegan recorded his version of Rock Island Line. It reached the Top Ten in the hit parade on both sides of the Atlantic. Skiffle had arrived.
The term ‘skiffle’ evokes a bunch of 1950s sixth-formers in NHS glasses earnestly lamenting life, with the Quarrymen on 6th July 1957.
