ITV Yorkshire
Fifty years after Rock & Roll hit Britain, Frock & Roll traces the transformation in fashion and culture that took place in the fifties and sixties, and meets the people at the heart of it.
Inspired by American rhythm and blues, Rock & Roll really started to take hold on Britain in the mid 1950s. Earlier generations of teenagers had been suppressed due to post war struggles and the lack of any real outlet for their passions, but after rock and roll arrived in Britain, young people started to express themselves for the first time.
The Beatles and Rolling Stones proved that Brits could do rock & roll as well as the Americans, and from that moment on, the country was gripped by an incredible wave of new culture and fashion.
Rock and Roll wasn’t just music, it was a lifestyle that saw young people become part of distinct warring tribes for the first time. Frock and Roll meets the rockers, mods and skinheads and discovers what it meant to be part of the new tribes. It traces the fashion liberation that saw men’s hair styles getting longer and women’s mini skirts getting shorter; and it meets the men and women who still belong to the groups that started it all over 40 years ago including Human League's Susan Sulley, Saxon's Graham Oliver and Steve Dawson, writer and broadcaster Ian Clayton and the legend that is Sir Jimmy Savile.