Re: Extinction Rebellion
Today it's computers, years ago when the world was flat and most of our members, me included, were young, it was Bill Halley and his Comets and his hit "Rock Around the Clock" that gave birth to a new craze that had been started in the USA called Rock and Roll.
Don't you guys remember Edwardian clothes sweeping the youth of dear old Jolly? Teddy boys with stove pipe pants, fingertip length jackets with cuffs on the sleeves and four buttons along with double breasted waistcoats, slim Jim tie and "brothel creeper" crepe soled shoes? Money had to be saved as the "gear" had to be tailormade. And longer hair, with the front permed into curls a la Tony Curtis?
I was living in Southend on Sea, and the Movie "Blackboard Jungle" hit the silver screen and open credits played to "Rock around the Clock" and the kids in the audience, me included, went crazy at this new sound and started jiving and doubled back for the next showing and really went wild dancing in the isles. And Rock and Roll was in!
The newspapers were full of how this craze was sweeping the UK. and later Europe and the World. A little later salesales of guitars and drum sets were getting sold out, which led to the next generation and Lonnie Donegan and skiffle groups were the craze, and so it has gone on from there to computers, and so until the next hot thing the youth will take up.
Most of you sound like my dad when I was young, telling me that "The sky is Falling" "The youth of today will never amount to much", etc, etc,. Well sorry dad, but despite my Stove pipe pants and the curly front of my hair (by the way, mom permed it while you were at work), I did alright...And so will the kids of today. As did the kids of yesterday, from Adam, who didn't think much of his son Cain who snuffed his brother Abel, but then along came son Seth who cleaned the act up, and all the way down to me rocking in the isles.
Cheers, Rodney
"Come on Baby let's do the Rock". Those were the days.
Rodney David Richard Mills
R602188 Gravesend