The latest in our series investigating overlooked or obscured figures in musical and subcultural history takes a look at London’s first psychedelic night club ‘UFO’ (The previous edition of ‘Ever Heard of…’ about Japanese new-wave singer Jun Togawa, can be read here – click here Clubbing was very different in the swinging sixties compared to… Read more »
Ahead of the bank holiday we are taking a look at ‘Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers’, written by Stanley Cohen and it is a piece of work highly respected by British criminologists. The book looks at the social and media reaction to the conflict between the Mods and… Read more »
May 1964 Somewhere on a beach in Southern England On the east end of the beach –THE ROCKERS. Rockers were one of the original UK subcultures. A love of motorbikes, think Triumph, Norton and BSA, leather jackets (ex-military or genuine rider’s jackets), rock and roll music, biker boots and brothel creepers and hanging out in… Read more »
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