I bet they enjoy listening to Brian Setzer.
He looks like a really wild guy.
To paraphrase Hank Hill...I love people with tattoos, it let’s you know who’s not right without even having to talk to them.
He looks like he just had a hookworm treatment!
Rockabilly is really big in Europe, especially Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. Check out the forum called “Rock City Boogie” forum. They go nuts about it and have a big annual 4 day festival called Blue Heaven.
Wheels Fargo and Nightingale from Italy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEklMnSw13Q
All that said, I’m not really into the cult following of Betty Page, they seem to be real big into nostalgia like that and there is some woman up in the North West who really really looks like Betty Page,
Bernie Dexter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Dexter
I was stationed in Keflavik, Iceland back in the early 70s. Iceland is a desolate place. Icelanders no longer have the NATO base and the military personnel stationed there to keep them entertained. I guess immersing yourself in rockabilly probably makes life there more bearable.
They love as mentioned in the article Gene Vincent, I don’t think Gene ever took off like he did in England and the rest of Europe and Vincent and his guitarist, Cliff Gallup played great music.
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