Graham Holland, with his band "Danny & The Rebels."
Photograph [235105] taken at the Guildhall, Worcester [18th December 1959]
By, Brendan Kerney, The studio, 147 London Road, Worcester.
[Many thanks to Josephine Stenersen; our sister, who had this photo in her family photos]

Graham Holland, my brother is standing behind the drummer.
Born: Sunday, 15th March, 1942.
Died: Thursday, 11th September, 1997.
I retrieved this photo on the 6th August, 2024, almost 27 years after his death.

I know that they also played at the Odeon in Worcester, Martley Village Hall and many other venues.

Graham was the singer in the band, and I guess as he loved Elvis Presley so much and that he sang like him, that they would have done songs by Elvis, Cliff Richards and others when they performed.

They were following the Teddy Boy trend, and that can be seen more than anything in their hairstyles.
The hairstyle taken up by the Teddy boy culture where the hair was greased up and carefully styled into what was known as a DA, or duck's arse.

The origin of the name "Teddy Boy" though disputed, seems to derive from the habit of wearing Edwardian-style clothes, and the classic look – subverting Savile Row's own simultaneous attempts to market those styles to the wealthy – combined velvet-collared long draped jackets with narrow drainpipe trousers, gaudy waistcoats, thin ties and crepe-soled shoes known as brothel creepers.

At the time there was also another group of teenagers that called themselves Mods.

Mods and Rockers clashed violently with each other on Brighton Beach in the 1960s, the Teddy Boys set the fires to the very first first teenage riot.

When the Bill Haley film Rock Around the Clock arrived in the UK in 1956, eager Teds (as they were also known) erupted: cinema seats were slashed; fireworks and bottles thrown; shop windows smashed; and police battled with throngs of jiving, singing teenagers. Nothing of the sort had been seen before. It caused Britain to wake up in shock to the existence of the teenager, kicking off a moral panic that swept through the media and the middle-aged over 'feral youth' and 'the teen menace'.

Teddyboy is a predominantly British subculture that began in the early 1950s among teenagers in London and spread rapidly across the UK and was strongly associated with American rock and roll music. After WWII, Edwardian fashion and its wearers were sometimes called Cosh Boys. The name Teddy Boy was coined when a Daily Express newspaper headline of September 23, 1953 shortened Edwardian to Teddy.

Teddy Girls [also called Judies] was the name given to the girls who associated themselves with the Teddy Boys.

The Beatles, were starting up around this time too and had their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962.
This changed everything for the music scene, and I wondered if Graham's band didn't make the change over to this new style of music and eventually finished playing together.

I well remember in later years going to the Green Dragon, in Bishops Frome and Graham would often join a local band that played there and sing Elvis Presley songs.