Rock ‘n’ Roll with a cutlass in its teeth.
Updated April 27, 2020. Johnny Kidd & the Pirates: England’s first true rock & roll band. When I was about ten, before the Beatles and Stones gate-crashed Britain’s mainly middle-of-the-road hit parade, I remember lamenting the lack of authentic rock & rollers we had in England. Where America had the pre-army Elvis Presley, we had the pre-Broadway Tommy…