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During last Wednesday's Radio 2 broadcast "Beatleland", there is a very brief clip (19.03 mins in) of the British "beat poet", Royston Ellis, accompanied by the Drifters (still, just) from a performance at Battersea Town Hall on 30th July, 1959, one of a series of Thursday "jive-nights" for teenagers staged by the local authority! Jet's Framus bass is much to the fore.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... eatleland/

Bill

Hmm, although beat poets in the USA performed with jazz backing well before this, Royston reciting his contemporary beat-era poetry with a live rock band backing obviously pre-dated punk poet John Cooper-Clarke by nearly 20 years...as usual, there's nuttin' new under the sun!