tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247050185364541007.post2714165840676352632..comments2024-03-21T18:02:46.110+00:00Comments on PORTSMOUTH POINT: Elvis: Icon or Iconoclast?J. Burkinshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07521961323780567072noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247050185364541007.post-91319836528687438472013-01-08T07:55:19.977+00:002013-01-08T07:55:19.977+00:00This is a very fine piece of writing - not least b...This is a very fine piece of writing - not least because you take unusual care with the idea of icon, a much over-used word. I'd comment on just two things. Firstly it was exactly 56 years ago this week that Lonnie Donegan entered the British charts, covering Leadbelly's "Rock Island Line" and it was a long way from "not" really working. We'd had British 'blues' before via George Melly and Ottillie Patterson but the skiffle craze was briefly huge and started all kinds of future stars on their course including the Beatles, Jimmy Page and at Portsmouth Grammar School Paul Pond (later Jones of Manfred Mann). Secondly popular music certainly changed dramatically with the advent of Elvis (and electric guitars, 45s, LPs etc) but it didn't start there. There were many commercially popular artists for decades before that and in the broader sense of popular (people) we're off on a history trip. But as I said, very good stuff. Dave Allen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com