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Where the Beatles MOD ????
You could countless threads like this
For example, I always thought that the Doors where MOD (ok I was a lot younger)
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Permalink Reply by Paul Viola on -
they dressed quite MODdy to start off or should that be Moody lol
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Permalink Reply by Dave Hillyard on -
Before the Beatles they were the the Quarrymen a Skiffle band more Teddy Boyish/Rockers before they changed to the Beatles.They changed there image to a more modonist look which changed there lives need i say more. Although they were never really mods.
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Permalink Reply by Bob James on -
AAAH! The Beatles. So much has been written about them. I have followed them since 1963 and been a huge fan of thier music. If anyone reading this wants to know more about them, then a couple of excellent books worth reading are "Revolution in the Head" by Ian MacDonald and "The Beatles Anthology"
Were they Mod. No! They started life with Lennon forming the Quarry Men, Paul joined in 1959 and they did'nt do much until the went to Hamburg in 1960 as the Silver Beatles. Their uniforn on and off stage were leathers, clothes that most teenagers were wearing then, really as a form of revolting against the establishment at the time.Thier "Mop Top" haircuts were styled by Astrid Kerchner, a friend of the band and lover of Stuart Sutcliffe (the fifth beatle) in 1961. It is true that in 1962 Brian Epstien cleaned up their image and put them into suits,they all hated wearing them.!!
As they went through the early sixties they dropped the suits to a more relaxed style,and around 1966 when the Small faces were THE MODS the Beatles were looking towads India and dressing accordingly evIdent on the Sgt Pepper album released in June 1967. This influenced the hippie period. There is no doubt whatsoever that that they changed the face of music,but i dont think they ever influenced the young of the mid sixties the way they dressed.
If you want to know more about the Beatles please ask me any questions
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Permalink Reply by Dave Fahey on -
"Shout-The true story of the Beatles" by Phillip Norman is also an excellent read.
I would never classify the Beatles as Mod- but this doesn't detract from some of their excellent sides.
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Permalink Reply by Ruadhán J McElroy on -
but this doesn't detract from some of their excellent sides.
Which, I imagine, begin and end with "Norwegian Wood"?
Please say "yes".
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Permalink Reply by Dave Hillyard on
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There there ?
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Permalink Reply by Ruadhán J McElroy on
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They re-named themselves The Beatles after being inspired by Buddy Holly & the Crickets. Lennon thought of other musical insects, and decided "the beatle" was best, as it evolved from the beetle on pure beat.
Not Mods, but I've always appreciated Lennon's and Starr's senses of humour.
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Permalink Reply by Ruadhán J McElroy on
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When they started off, they wore rocker leathers.
Roxy Music was more Mod than the early Beatles -- and I've written a dialogue in a novel I'm working on that concisely explains this position on Roxy Music.
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Permalink Reply by barry matthews on
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No!!! That will be all....
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Permalink Reply by Charles Murphy on
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They were'nt Mods they were'nt Rockers'''No I'm a Mocker'' The Fab Four put both of them on the map!!
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Permalink Reply by Charles Murphy on
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P.S Forgot too mention , Mods wore ''Beatle Boots'' got the photo of Mods lining up to buy them, not showing it in public for once as it has taken a helluva long time to find it but will add it to a video soon, remember 1964 belonged to The Beatles, Mods and Rockers, it's burned into the psyche of the 60's,70, and 80's generation, sad now no one gives a s*** anymore if it ain't X Factor or BGT, then nothing else matters to the now generation.
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Permalink Reply by Charles Murphy on
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The Beatles put the word SCREAMING into ''The Screaming Sixties'' lol!!! The world thanked them for it,lol!!!
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