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The Twist: Birth of a revolution

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Mad Men's Peggy Olson takes to the floor. Photograph: Rex Features
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The birth of the Twist came when Hank Ballard and The Midnighters modified the melody and chords of the gospel original to fit the conventional 12-bar blues structure. Photograph: Getty Images
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Chubby Checker at the Crescendo nightclub in Los Angeles in 1961. Photograph: Getty Images
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1962, Sophia Loren demonstrates the Twist at the Saint-Maurice studios with her teacher Regine. Photograph: Getty Images
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By the late summer of 1961, Manhattan’s Peppermint Lounge had become the epicentre of the Twist craze, attracting the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Truman Capote. Its doormen were bribed to get celebrities in Photograph: Corbis
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A marathon 12-hour Twisting session on a special cross-Channel trip by the ferry Royal Daffodil 2.
• Let's Twist again | Richard Williams
• How to do the Twist | gallery Photograph: Getty Images
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