My Dad loves The Beatles. I mean really loves The Beatles. He has practically every record they released and his room is plastered with posters, pictures and imagery of the Fab Four. It has more in common with a teenagers room than someone over 70 but hey, that is another story...
Anyway, there are a number of early 1960's tour posters dotted around the place, I love these as they are a wonderful piece of social history. I love the type face, the words and imagery used and, especially I love some of the band names on show such as Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Steve Day and the Drifters, Dale Roberts and the Jaywalkers, Danny Havoc and the Ventures - they are all brilliant - and they got me thinking: If some of the leading personalities of the First World War fronted their own rock 'n' roll bands, what would they be called?
Immediately recognising this as a question that could have deep historical importance, I spent the journey home and far too much of that evening thinking up rock 'n' roll band names for some of the leading lights of the war... and before you ask, no, I had nothing better to do.
Here we go then. This is rock 'n' roll meets First World War in a way you never thought you needed or wanted. It's this kind of stuff that will get me that OBE for services to history... It's important work.
Inky Bill and the Glory Holes
Sister Susie and the Gorgeous Wrecks
Jack Johnson and the Minenwerfers
Sir Douglas Haig and the Swagger Sticks
Sir John French and the Old Contemptibles
Mary Ward and the White Feathers
Little Willie and the Walking Wounded
Edward Very and his Very Lights
Lord Kitchener and the King's Shilling
Kaiser Bill and the Old Sweats
There's my starter for ten, but I am sure you can come up with better. What would your favourite First World War rock 'n' roll bands be called? Let the world know in the comments section below!
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