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swinging sixties music scene |
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Yes I know sixties music wasn't all the Beatles and the
Monkees, but however they were two of the most enigmatic of the era, in
my eyes any way.
Any road I digress, after the rock and roll of the fifties, came a new breed of kids most as in the case of John Lennon wanted to be Elvis. |
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| So he and many like him picked up the guitar and joined skiffle bands (a sort of loose lo-fi version of rock and roll). While all of this was going on the music scene stayed pretty much the same, until on the return of the Beatles from Hamburg Germany, they hit upon playing gigs at a little dive in Liverpool's Mathew Street, there they were spotted by Brian Epstein and changed the course of history. | ||
| The Beatles sound was completely different to anything in the charts at that time, instead of being four Elvis's they developed a sound of their own incorporating almost barber shop harmonies and high pitched screams . |  |
due to the birthplace of the Beatles this new sound was named Mersey beat, and shortly after the naming other bands from Liverpool started to try their hand at this, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Freddy and the Dreamers and so on. |
| This Northern sound sparked a Southern sound revolution known as the London sound started by what was seen as London's Beatles, The Rolling Stones but the stones were not really part of the mod movement as they were far too scruffy to be considered mods, however some mods did like them as their music was considered quite R&B and therefore quite acceptable to mods, this plagiarism of black music was previously done by Elvis but with more dramatic results. | ||
| The Mod movement was already happening but wasn't commercialised, the music that the Mods were listening to were mainly old Stax records and soul/motown music | 
the kinks |
until a band as manufactured as the monkees came into
play, The Who, they were not originally mods in fact lead singer Roger
Daltrey confessed to being more of Rocker than anything.
Soon more and more mod bands emerged, the Kinks, Small faces the Love affair and so on |