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...Merseyside gangs were the toughest in Liverpool-and in Liverpool in those days, all the gangs were tough. The chaps would hang around street corners showing off their haircuts, and whenever outsiders invaded their turf, they would step right out and start a rumble. Today most of the old belligerence is gone. The gangs have spawned rock 'n' roll quartets like amoebae, and the boys have swapped their bicycle chains for guitars...
...course, they tore up the theater in their enthusiasm. But according to an article in the British sociology journal New Society, things were never the same again. Says 19-year-old Colin Fletcher, who was a member of two Merseyside gangs before he entered Liverpool University: "It was the first time the gangs had been exposed to an animal rhythm that matched their own behavior. The beat spread like a rumour...
...Life in Liverpool still requires a sense of humor, but instead of the old, leather-jacketed menace of the gangs, there are now 350 "beat groups." The beat throbs loudly, anonymously, cheerfully, from 25 beat clubs and at least 75 other "venues." The groups sport such virile names as "The Profiles" and "The Cruisers," and the music has lost its early and highly anomalous English sound; the Liverpudlian accent lends itself nicely to lyrics of the "You got everthing' bay-bee" school, and Merseyside rock groups such as Ian and the Zodiacs sound just like they come from...
...argues that beat therapy has not been good for the kids; juvenile crime in Liverpool has dropped below the national average. At the very least, as one beat club employee says, making such music is better than beating up old ladies with bicycle chains. And a London reporter, feeling the beat, said the best of it: "It's a reminder to jumped-up man, grown snobbish, that the part of him which belongs forever to his old sweet home-the jungle-is good and valuable...
Ludwig von Keats. Singing groups are countless in Liverpool, and the Beatles did not just come in off a street corner to fame, as happens so frequently in the U.S. They developed their coordinated skill in a long line of one-night stands. They actually went off to the beer cellars of Hamburg to become fully professional. When they recorded Love Me Do in 1962, they began their giddy spiral to fame...