Lonnie Donegan’s son Peter recounts the story of his father – The King of Skiffle – performing all the million-selling hits with the original Lonnie Donegan Band which toured with Lonnie for more than ...

Jim Carter tells the story of Lonnie Donegan - a crucial trailblazer in the birth of pop music and modern culture who inspired Lennon and McCartney.

However, as this informative, entertaining and even inspiring film illustrated, nothing was going to stop the ebullient Jones from bursting out from coal-dust-coated, small-town anonymity. Everybody ...

Donegan, who changed his first name from Anthony to Lonnie as a tribute to bluesman Lonnie Johnson, was an inspiration himself to a generation of British musicians including John Lennon and Pete ...

Lonnie Donegan, who pioneered skiffle music, crucially altering British popular music and significantly influencing the Beatles, died Sunday Nov. 3 after collapsing while on tour in England. He was 71 ...