Henry Zebrowski

This was also waved off, and again and again, the cops did nothing.

In 1956, Jimmy Saville returned to Leeds, and there he entered his final oddball form.

He began dressing in a red, white, and blue tracksuit with a big hat, pink glasses, and gold shoes.

and he began bleaching his straight, shoulder-length hair blonde, fashioning the cut into an almost helmet-like shape.

He looked objectively creepy, even if you managed to remove all the things we know about him today.

But the people of England loved Jimmy's act, and his star only grew in the British music scene.

And this is also a time when everything is changing.

This is the late 50s, early 60s.

Everything is changing.

They're coming out of the war.

Everything is kind of weird.

Like, you know, the Beatles, everything is like kind of off.

Everything is constantly like things are different this week than they were last week.

You know, you when you listen, it's insane to sometimes like read the way these people talk about the they talk about like the difference between 1959 and 1962 as if they're 40 years apart.

Yeah.

But to that point, this was during the rise of the skiffle genre.

Skiffle, it's massive in England, never made it to America.

But without skiffle, you don't have the Beatles.

You don't have the Rolling Stones.

Whoa.