Without skiffle music, The Beatles might not have happened. Never heard of it? Popular in Britain in the 1950s, the music craze was heavily influenced by old American blues and jug band music, and ...

Music is often cyclical but not always chronological, which was certainly the case when the man who helped put skiffle on the map (and was a fundamental influence on the future Beatles) died in 2002, ...

Most people with even a cursory interest in popular music could name the king of rock 'n' roll and the king of pop, but ask them who the king of skiffle was and you might get a blank stare, perhaps ...

He is more famous as a film critic, but the man who spends much of his working life in dark theatres has another passion - playing upright bass in sweaty venues to make a 'joyful racket' with his ...

In the same way that Blur's pert, smart backsides will always spring to mind when the term Britpop is mentioned, skiffle is associated almost entirely with one man. That Lonnie Donegan was as ...

When World War II ended for Britain, so did the trappings of a traditional working-class identity. Full employment coupled with expansive welfare provisions diluted a historical class consciousness ...

Van Morrison announced a new album, Moving On Skiffle, due out on March 10, 2023. The legendary singer-songwriter previewed the 23-track record with the single, “Streamline Train.” Moving on Skiffle ...

Growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Van Morrison would hang out at his local record shop, Atlantic Records, and consume all the early 20th century blues, jazz, and folk from the likes of Jelly ...

Lonnie Donegan, a musician whose "skiffle" sound inspired John Lennon and Pete Townshend to learn to play guitar, has died. Donegan died yesterday (Nov. 3) in Peterborough, central England, while on… ...

Skiffle is the music that time forgot, and Billy Bragg thinks it’s high time we knew a lot more about it. He’s been a big fan for years, and now he’s written a lively history of this neglected genre - ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1956 British teenagers fell under the spell of a wild new music craze. Record Mirror denounced “the utterly stupid ...