| The first scene sees friends sipping coffee and discussing the skiffle craze that is sweeping Britain. |
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| In the mid 50's he was a leading light of the skiffle movement, a genre that would influence the early Beatles incarnation, The Quarrymen. |
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| The production makes good use of rock 'n' roll, the wireless and the skiffle band. |
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| King of skiffle Lonnie Donegan died after collapsing just hours before he was due to take the stage in York. |
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| On a skiffle groove, the Chicks wag their fingers at the homemakers' life, singing about the pleasures of cooking, dusting, and breeding. |
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| Glasgow-born Donegan paved the way for the British pop explosion of the 1960s with skiffle, a blend of folk, blues and jazz. |
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| We can't ask him whether he would prefer a father who can kick a ball around or a mother who doesn't remember skiffle. |
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| When jiving and bepop was followed by skiffle, Ronnie's band, The Dominoes, were given a chance to play. |
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| By the time he was 14, Rod was in a skiffle band with schoolmates from Nunthorpe Grammar, styling themselves the Green Corn Boys. |
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| Ever the wit, the 71-year-old king of skiffle had been closing his shows on that tour with the gospel blues of This May Be The Last Time. |
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| You spice it with blues and skiffle music, and pickle it in alcohol and tobacco smoke. |
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| In the 1950s he was in a skiffle band, playing in pubs while also working in his in-laws' greengrocery. |
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| Without Elvis, we might all be listening to jazz or skiffle. |
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| Ronnie played washboard with his brother Ted's outfit, the Candy Bison skiffle group, in the intermission between two Tommy Steele films at a local cinema. |
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| The skiffle star died last week midway through a UK tour after collapsing at the home of friends in Peterborough, where the service took place yesterday. |
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| Nicholas Hytner's fivestar production tells the story of Francis Henshall who, fired from his skiffle band, becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe. |
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| The first 10 songs in the series were unveiled on Wednesday, representing an eclectic mix of styles from skiffle to punk. |
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| You can get your own coat of arms and enjoy music with The Rat Pack, The Bravo Boys and skiffle stars Paul Leegan and the Legends. |
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| The traditional skiffle bands used household articles to play their music: a washboard, a tea tray with strings, kazoos, combs, cigar boxes and papers. |
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| In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a skiffle group with several friends from Quarry Bank school. |
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| Lennon and McCartney were among thousands of British boys who, inspired by Donegan, formed skiffle groups in their case, the Quarrymen as a first step on the road to rock and roll. |
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| Having played in skiffle bands during his youth in northern London, Richard, backed by a band that eventually became known as the Shadows, moved on to rock and roll. |
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| A number of these new performers, including the Ian Campbell Folk Group, emerged from the skiffle movement. |
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| In 1960, he joined a skiffle group with schoolfriends called the Kool Kats, playing Lonnie Donegan and Chas McDevitt hits. |
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| The punk explosion of 1977 prompted the world and his wife to pick up guitars, just as they had grabbed washboards in the skiffle era 20 years before. |
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| Perone describes the development of British pop and rock and roll music, from skiffle and the teen idols of the 1950s to the mods and rockers and the British Invasion. |
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| The Vipers Skiffle Group also released a version in that year. |
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