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The 2010 remake of the 1948 film Brighton Rock is set in the era of mods and rockers, with Bank Holiday tribal clashes on Brighton promenades and beaches. The 1979 film Quadrophenia starring Phil Daniels as Jimmy, Leslie Ash as Steph and Sting the lead singer of the English band Police as Ace Face, is set against the background of the 1964 ...
A planned bank holiday weekend away provides the excuse for the rivalry between Mods and Rockers to escalate, as both groups descend on the seaside town of Brighton. Jimmy plans to be noticed as a 'face' and hints to Steph – a girl on whom he has a crush – that he would like her to ride with him, but she confirms plans to ride instead with ...
Quadrophenia Alley is located between number 10 and 11 East Street Brighton and was the location for a scene in the 1979 film Quadrophenia. The Alley has become a shrine to the Mod movement, [1] and people come from all over the world to find this alleyway. [2] The cult film was set in Brighton in 1964, the period of the Mods and Rockers.
The mods and rockers conflict led sociologist Stanley Cohen to use the term "moral panic" in his study about the two youth subcultures, [5] in which he examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s. [6] By 1965, conflicts between mods and rockers began to subside and mods increasingly gravitated towards pop art and psychedelia.
Mods and Rockers is a 1964 British short film directed by Kenneth Hume and produced by Anglo-Amalgamated. [1] It features the Western Theatre Ballet company based on their ballets "Mods and Rockers" and "Non-Stop". They also perform a dance to Beatles compositions.
Pembroke's Matt York brings his acclaimed "Highwaymen" show, including songs and stories about Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings, to The Fallout Shelter in Norwood
Boston-bred alt-rockers Jukebox the Ghost open a three-night stand at The Sinclair in Cambridge. The jazz sextet Unisphere gets down at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston. The jazz sextet Unisphere gets ...
Quadrophenia is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Who, released as a double album on 26 October 1973 [4] by Track Records.It is the group's third rock opera, the previous two being the "mini-opera" song "A Quick One, While He's Away" (1966) and the album Tommy (1969).