Joe Boyd on when folk was hip

Two concerts next weekend will celebrate Britain's folk-rock tradition. Joe Boyd, who launched Fairport Convention and the Incredible String Band, pays tribute to the musical trailblazers whose legacy lives onRock'n'roll was once a working-class occupation. Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Billy Fury and Johnny Hallyday saw music as a way out and up, like sport, hell-fire preaching or trade union politics. That Fury and Hallyday didn't grow up picking cotton or shining shoes mattered very little. ...

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