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Mods and Rockers, two rival British youth gangs, on Easter weekend 1964, a long Bank Holiday, met up in various resort locations in England, and violence broke out. The riots on Brighton beach and elsewhere attracted the attention of the press in the United Kingdom and abroad. There seems to be little evidence that there was widespread.
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Contrary to popular belief, Rockers were also initially against recreational drug use, feeling that drug-takers were "sissies". Mods, meanwhile, is a term that originated from "Modernists". The youths of this subculture were influenced by modern jazz and fashion, not modernism or whatever the latest trends were, as the name might suggest.
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Musically, the Rockers stuck with the artists of the 1950s, such as Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, The Everly Brothers and Bill Haley. Promoters of gigs had to be very careful who they booked on shows. If a Mod band was put on as a warm up act to a rock 'n' roll star, there would often be trouble.
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Mods, meanwhile, cultivated a less macho appearance, with fitted suits, bright colours and bold patterns - a look that tended to be perceived by Rockers as effeminate. In contrast to Rockers' careful styling, Mod men increasingly opted for Beatles-style bowl cuts or mop tops, while their vehicle of choice was the scooter, ideally a Vespa or.
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Three rockers on Chelsea Bridge Two mods on a scooter. 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.
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The Mods and Rockers were conflicting British youth subcultures of the early-mid 1960s. Riots between Mods and Rockers broke out in seaside resort towns in Southern England during this time and sparked a moral panic about British youths. The Rockers were motorcyclists, wearing clothes such as black leather jackets. The Mods were scooter riders, wearing suits and clean-cut outfits.
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MODS V ROCKERS Very few events in British history have had an impact on the culture like the battles between the Mods and the Rockers nearly 50 years ago. The traditions continue today. At heart, even now, everyone is still a Mod or a Rocker. Who are they? The mods and the rockers were two youth subcultures which became popular in the early 1960s.
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The term 'Mod' comes from the word modernist and caught on due to the groups interest in modern jazz music in the late 1950s. The typical fashion of the male Mods included expensive and well.
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The mods and rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early to mid-1960s and 1970's. Media coverage of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British.
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The mods and rockers conflict led sociologist Stanley Cohen to use the term "moral panic" in his study about the two youth subcultures, in which he examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s. By 1965, conflicts between mods and rockers began to subside and mods increasingly gravitated towards pop art and psychedelia.
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The Mods and Rockers' worst fighting took place in Brighton, where clashes lasted two days and spread along the coast to Hastings and back, earning it the moniker "Second Battle of Hastings." A small group of Rockers were stranded on Brighton Beach, where they were protected by the police. Mods overpowered and assaulted the police officers who.
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It was the Mods who gave British pop a definite sense of style in the mid-sixties, dominating the number one pop television show Ready, Steady, Go! and making Carnaby Street the centre of hip young fashion long before the colour supplements discovered it. The Rockers wore winklepicker shoes, tight jeans and leather jackets with polished studs.
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Mods and rockers are two of the most recognizable subcultures within the UK. The two emerged around the mid-1960s and continued their influence well into the early 1970s. Though the two were both heavily influential amongst young people of the time, they very rarely saw eye to eye, and many conflicts erupted between the two, leading culture at.
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The Mod/Rocker disturbances soon faded as other styles came into youth culture prominence, but they set a pattern of tribal violence that would continue on and off throughout the rest of the 1960s.
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These teens fell into two primary camps: mods and rockers. The mods were the stylish kids - fans of psychedelic rock who wore skinny ties and suits and rode around the streets of England on scooters. The rockers were the tough kids; clad in leather, they greased their hair up into pompadours and took to the roads on motorcycles.