This was the slogan that opened every episode, right before the 1963 surf rock instrumental WIPE OUT started blaring. British teens would tune in weekly to see their favorite bands and singers perform ...

Like the Beatles' first LP and sexual intercourse, you might guess the pioneering pop show Ready Steady Go! was a product of 1963, the year the 1960s started swinging at last. With its youthful ...

Pop on TV in the mid-60s was the chaotic and brash Ready Steady Go! – the audience milled about the studio while cameras pushed through; artists performed from four stages. It was a weekly party of ...

They weren’t exactly dancing in the streets – or the seats – yet when the Motortown Revue came to the U.K. from Detroit during April 1965. But a national TV show changed that tune in a hurry. “Ready ...

Drake Bell has no interest in becoming a conventional pop star in 2014. Instead, the former star of the hit Nickelodeon series "Drake & Josh" likens himself to a musical Marty McFly, using his… By ...

Stumbling on stage as a tipsy teenager, Rod Stewart had no idea that he’d just fallen into the limelight – where he’d stay for the rest of his life. In 1964, the young Mod made his TV debut on music ...

Keith Fordyce, former host of the Sixties TV pop programme Ready Steady Go!, has died aged 83. The pioneering ITV show began in 1963 when British pop was having one of its most creative periods. With ...