Merseyside-born Costello, born Declan MacManus, emerged on the back of the late 1970s UK punk rock movement with his band The Attractions, recording a string of successful albums including This Year's Model, Armed Forces and Get Happy.

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Little known to us suburban rock neophytes, a 1976 counter movement had already begun.

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The youth culture of the 1960s may have promoted sexual license, but glam rock was the first mainstream pop movement to trade on androgyny and sexual ambiguity.

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The psychedelic rock group came to prominence in 1968 as part of the socially active Tropicalia Movement in Brazil.

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Meanwhile in the UK, the punk movement took on the mantle of political protest from its folk and rock forebears, with groups such as The Clash criticizing racial disharmony in British society.

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As the civil rights movement reached across the South, and as confrontations at other notorious stateliness made Little Rock look like a beginner course in racial violence, the Negro press lost its front row seat.

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