![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Powell’s engagement with various aspects of the city’s youth culture presents a particular image of England that remained rooted in class yet was open to particular incursions into, and transformations of, particular social and cultural milieus. It was in such places where a different England was being imagined on record, stage and dance floor. 2 Popular music played an essential role in this process through the way in which it became embedded in coffee bars, dance halls and clubs. 1 Fury was possibly the first British rock 'n roll artist to write his own songs, sometimes under the pseudonym Wilbur Wilberforce. The album has been described as 'the best rock & roll album to come out of England's original beat boom of the late 1950s'. ![]() A singer of extraordinary power and sensitivity, the Liverpool-born Fury was the closest thing to Elvis Presley that England produced. The Sound of Fury was the first album released by Billy Fury in 1960. In this period, London provided social spaces where the boundaries and conventions of class and ethnicity could be temporarily traversed. The Sound of Fury was the best rock & roll album to come out of England's original beat boom of the late '50s, and it was a singular achievement for its artist, Billy Fury, who wrote every song on the 10' LP. 1 His journey took him from a working-class, industrial Northern England to a perceptibly more cosmopolitan England that by 1964 was shaking to the beats of West Indian ska music, rock ‘n’ roll and African American rhythm and blues. This chapter examines Clive Powell’s geographical and musical trajectory through a period that has been popularly perceived as a crossroads for English popular music between 19.
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