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Elements of the mod subculture include fashion (often tailor-made suits); music (including soul, rhythm and blues, ska and mainly jazz) and motor scooters (usually Lambretta or Vespa). In the mid-1960s when they started to fade out, the subculture listened to rock groups with R&B influences such as the Who and Small Faces .
The mod subculture was centred on fashion and music, and many mods wore parkas and rode scooters. Mods wore suits and other cleancut outfits, and listened to music genres such as modern jazz, soul, Motown, ska and British blues-rooted bands like the Yardbirds, the Small Faces, and later the Who and the Jam.
Brum Beat - biographies of mostly 60s bands from Birmingham, England; Classic Garage Rock - includes profiles and lyrics of 60s garage rock bands and songs—have inventory of records rented to film studios; Cosmic Mind at Play - discusses garage and psychedelic records of the 60s along with band histories
The Mod Musical is an Off-Broadway musical by Phillip George and David Lowenstein featuring songs from the swinging sixties. The musical features five female singers who are called, Orange, Blue, Green, Yellow and Red.
The series served as a follow-up to the Pebbles, Volume 6 LP, itself subtitled The Roots of Mod, which was the only album in the Pebbles series that was devoted to English music. When the English Freakbeat series was reissued as CDs in the 1990s, the Pebbles, Volume 6 LP was adapted into the English Freakbeat, Volume 6 CD.
A list of musical groups and artists who were active in the 1960s and associated with music in the decade This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Garage rock was a raw form of rock music, particularly prevalent in North America in the mid-1960s and is called such because of the perception that many of the bands rehearsed in a suburban family garage. [49] [50] Garage rock songs often revolved around the traumas of high school life, with songs about "lying girls" being particularly common ...
Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or ' 60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock music that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals.