The City of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England and its environs.
Including Gosport, Fareham, Waterlooville, Havant and Hayling Island.

Please note, this is a NON-PROFIT MAKING project.
Purely a labour of love for my City and the music of the City that I love.

Dave Allen, a one time member of local groups called Harlem Speakeasy, Rosemary and Gilbey Twiss, has researched the decade of the 1960's. Detailed here are his findings on the Portsmouth Music Scene. Mick Cooper, another former Portsmouth musician has added to his work by researching from 1944 to the end of 1959 and beyond. Therefore we have here over a century of the popular music history of the City of Portsmouth. As you read these pages, hopefully it will give you a strong flavour of those days. If it jogs any memories, and you would care to pass them on so that we might add to this ever increasing history, we would be very pleased to hear from you. We are determined that the names of these Portsmouth musicians will be remembered. Acknowledgments;- There are so many people we have to thank for their help. Including Ron Brown, Alan Zeffertt, Terry Hounsome, Stephen Pomeroy, Mike Scaddan, and not forgetting the ever patient Alan King and staff of the Norrish Central Library in Portsmouth, also the staff at the Portsmouth Museum but most of all The Portsmouth Evening News and Portsmouth NEWS without their tireless efforts over many years there would be NO archive of the music in the City. There are many more who we are indebted to for information, photographs and their memories,... A very BIG Thank You. Photographic copyright;- Every effort has been made to identify the photographic copyright owners, but if you feel a photograph on these pages violates your copyright, please advise us and it will be removed.

Check here for this Month's Portsmouth area LIVE music gigs The Search Engine ! If you have any additions or corrections to these pages and information, please contact us;- Contact Mick at,... email: cooper_m6@sky.com ----- Contact Dave at,... email: daveshomeport@gmail.com And now on Facebook, - Pompey Pop - - before 1900 - - 1900 - 1921 - - 1922 - - 1923 - - 1924 - - 1925 - - 1926 - - 1927 - - 1928 - - 1929 - - 1930 - - 1931 - - 1932 - - 1933 - - 1934 - - 1935 - - 1936 - - 1937 - - 1938 - - 1939 - - 1940 - - 1941 - - 1942 - - 1943 - - 1944 - - 1945 - - 1946 - - 1947 - - 1948 - - 1949 - - 1950 - - 1951 - - 1952 - - 1953 - - 1954 - - 1955 - - 1956 - - 1957 - - 1958 - - 1959 - - 1956-1959 - - 1960 - - 1961 - - 1962 - - 1963 - - 1964 - - 1965 - - 1966 - - 1967 - - 1968 - - 1969 - - beyond - Photos and line-ups - Before the Sixties - - The Sixties groups - - The 70's 80's 90's - - 21st Century Bands and Groups and Solos - Who's who in those groups/bands - Musicians before 1959 - - Bands before 1959 - - Musicians during the 1960's - - Bands and Groups in the 1960's - - Musicians from 1970 to 1999 - - Bands and Groups from 1970 and 1999 - - Musicians in the 21st Century - - Groups and Bands in ther 21st Century -

- 1990's "Venue" Magazine Band Directory 1 -

- Pompey's lesser known bands -

- Gosport Bands and Musicians -

- The Pompey Pop Guildhall Exhibition -

- The Portsmouth Music Experience -

- Dave Allen's thesis on Pompey Pop -

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