Publisher's Synopsis
An Anglo-American alphabetical "Who's Who" of pop musicians in the later 1950s and 60s, this book shows how the musical foundations for pop music were laid and sets each artist in his or her own sociological context.;The book starts in 1956 when the Elvis phenomenon swept the USA and includes skiffle mania in the UK, pin-ups from the "Doo-Wop" era, early rock 'n roll, soul and protest singers, the Beatles and the Mersey sound and the Mods and Rockers music in Britain - in fact the many fads and movements which marked the era in which, according to Harold Macmillan "we never had it so good".
