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Two mid-1960s mods on a customised Lambretta scooter. Mod, from the word modernist, is a subculture that began in late 1950s London and spread throughout Great Britain, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries. [1] It continues today on a smaller scale. Focused on music and fashion, the subculture has its roots in a small ...
Mods and rockers. Mods and rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the late 1950s to mid 1960s. Media coverage of the two groups fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youth, and they became widely perceived as violent, unruly troublemakers. The rocker subculture was centred on motorcycling.
Jann Wenner The Who have been regarded primarily as a rock band, yet have taken influence from several other styles of music during their career. The original group played a mixture of trad jazz and contemporary pop hits as the Detours, and R&B in 1963. The group moved to a mod sound the following year, particularly after hearing the Small Faces fuse Motown with a harsher R&B sound. The group ...
Bob Manton. Gary Sparks. Past members. Nick Lake. Website. Purplehearts.co.uk. Purple Hearts are an English mod revival band, formed in 1977 in Romford, eastern Greater London. They were often considered one of the best English mod revival groups, [1] the NME calling them "one of the few mod bands to actually cut it on rock 'n' roll terms".
Roger Powell. Reg King. Peter Watson. Ian Whiteman. Martin Stone. Website. actionmightybaby.co.uk. The Action were an English band of the 1960s, formed as the Boys in August 1963, in Kentish Town, North West London. [1] They were part of the mod subculture, [2] and played soul music -influenced pop music.
Several genres of rock and pop originated in London throughout the 1960s to the 1990s including British blues, psychedelia, mod, prog, glam, hard rock, punk rock, New Romantic and Britpop. [1] This page includes bands formed and based in London. [2] Below is a list of music artists and bands from London. These are separated by genre.
Swinging Sixties. The Swinging Sixties was a youth-driven cultural revolution that took place in the United Kingdom during the mid-to-late 1960s, emphasising modernity and fun-loving hedonism, with Swinging London denoted as its centre. [1] It saw a flourishing in art, music and fashion, and was symbolised by the city's "pop and fashion exports ...
The mod revival is a subculture that started in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and later spread to other countries (to a lesser degree).. The Mod Revival started with disillusionment with the punk scene when commercialism set in. [citation needed] It was featured in an article in Sounds music paper in 1976 and had a big following in Reading/London during that time.