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• n  a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments

• McCartney encountered Lennon in the logical way, given the times and the two boys' musical interests: on the skiffle scene.
• The hero is a young Sohobo (Laurence Harvey) who calls himself a talent agent because he books skiffle bands and strip acts into low resorts.
• LONNIE DONEGAN, 71, Scottish rock and blues musician who in the 1950s introduced Britain to "skiffle"--a precursor to rock 'n' roll that combines folk, jug band, country, jazz and .

News & Articles

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• Knobtown Skiffle Band gets you up and dancing
  There’s nothing quite like the sound of a banjo. And when the Knobtown Skiffle Band starts to play music using...
  July 25, 2013 - FOX 4 Kansas City

Quotes

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• John Lennon in BBC News
  I was playing at a garden fete in the village where I lived just outside Liverpool playing with a skiffle group,says Lennon. "And he came along and that's how we met."
• Björn Ulvaeus in The Times
  Folk music is where I come from originally,says Ulvaeus. "The first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big."
• Mark Knopfler in Telegraph.co.uk
  Mark Knopfler describes him as "the genuine article - a bona fide British rocker and born entertainer whose roots go back beyond the UK skiffle boom to music hall, early folk music and the Mississippi Delta."