Media   

Skiffle

Categories: Music / songs

A short lived music genre of the 1950s. A mixture of jazz, blues and folk music, it originated in the United States earlier in the century. In Britain, its main performer was Lonnie Donegan, who became known as the 'King of Skiffle'. A lot of its popularity was due to the fact that is was easy to perform; using a cheap guitar, a washboard with metal thimbles and a pole with a string attached to a tea-chest, as a makeshift double bass.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Skiffle

Commemorated ati

Other Subjects

Thomas Mazzinghi

Thomas Mazzinghi

Violinist, father of Joseph Mazzinghi, the composer.

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Steve Marriott

Steve Marriott

Musician and songwriter. Part of the original line-up of the Small Faces group, writing or co-writing most of their hits. In 1968 he left the group, storming off stage during a disastrous live perf...

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Dave Clark

Dave Clark

Born Tottenham. Leader and drummer of The Dave Clark Five a beat combo from the 1960s. He wrote and produced Time, a successful science fiction stage musical, in which Laurence Olivier's hologram f...

Person, Music / songs, Theatre

1 memorial
Bee Gees

Bee Gees

Three members of the group: Barry Gibb and his brothers, the twins Robin & Maurice, all born on the Isle of Man. The family emigrated to Australia in 1958 and that was where they began their m...

Group, Music / songs, Seriously Famous

1 memorial
Barry Gibb

Barry Gibb

One of the three Bee Gees.

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial

Previously viewed

Rifle Brigade

Rifle Brigade

SW1, Hobart Place

There are 3 statues on this memorial: to the left - a rifleman of 1806; to the right - an officer of 1800 (when the brigade was formed); ...

5 subjects commemorated, 4 creators
Old Middlesex Sessions House

Old Middlesex Sessions House

EC1, Clerkenwell Green

Above the central window, this cameo-type profile bust of the King is draped in ribbons and swags of oak and laurel leaves. Carved by Ros...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
James Buckington Bevington

James Buckington Bevington

Of Neckinger Mills, Bermondsey, a successful leather manufacturers.  Father of Samuel Bourne.

Person, Commerce

1 memorial
Sir Jacob Epstein - Roper's Garden

Sir Jacob Epstein - Roper's Garden

SW3, Old Church Street, Roper’s Garden

The text is inscribed on the reverse of the relief.

2 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
Bridges - Montague Close

Bridges - Montague Close

SE1, Montague Close

The pale plaque between the two dark ones carries some near-illegible etchings showing bridges.

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator