The Teds

by Richard Smith and Chris Steele-Perkins

1956, sixty years ago, was a watershed year for Teds. In September that year the Bill Haley film Rock Around The Clock arrived in the UK. With five records in the top twenty, Haley was a major star and the film screened at some three hundred cinemas across the country. It wasn't long before the riots started. At London's Elephant and Castle Trocadero seats were slashed, and when the police attempted to disperse a throng of jiving, singing teenagers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911306057
• ISBN13: 9781911306054
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 11.7"