Skiffle Up a Music Industry; the origins of Pop Music in London 1956
Channel: Fred Garnett FRSA
Date: 2012-06-10

Rough Cut of short film about how the informality of playing Skiffle in the streets under Charing Cross bridge, became the formality of Pop music thanks to the Vipers on Bastille Day 1956. To use Pete Frame's beautiful phrase "it was if a seed (skiffle), blown across a desert, had lodged in a spot fertile enough to take root and sprouted into a giant beanstalk (pop music)"