Tag: beat, eccles, history, music, Patricroft, record
SalfordOnline.com reaches Spain to find 1965 Eccles music mogul
The speed that SalfordOnline.com’s stories spread around the globe can be frightening at times, but just 12 hours after posting a history story on a famed Eccles...
50 years ago in Eccles: Can’t stop the Beat as Salford’s own Abbey Road studio opens
Over the past five years SalfordOnline.com has been recording the young musicians of the Beat generation who came up through Salford and Eccles bent on world domination....
50 years ago in Salford: 150-strong mob see police assaulted in Cross Lane beat club riot
Cross Lane in Salford was not always the characterless thoroughfare you see today. In 1965 the whole street was alive with music, 18 pubs, shops, cinema halls and...
50 years ago in Salford: Talk of the North link to ‘big-time hopefuls’ Karl’s Marals
Salford’s long association with the music biz is well recorded, but one of the most unusually-named bands tipped for success in May 1965 also had a local legend in...
50 years ago in Salford: Beat combo The Rogues tipped for the top
In May 1965 a group of young chaps from Salford and Swinton who called themselves The Rogues were intent on world domination of the musical kind. The Eccles and...
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