Rock Music History 1973 – Part 1
Impact of The Beatles.
Excerpt from in interview with Mickie Most
(from Music Scene Magazinin 1973
e, November 1973)
Somehow, the Beatles meant more to the rest of the world than they did to Britain. Sure, they were immensely popular and the college of r
The generation gap between British kids and their parents has nearly always been something that rigidly stuck to the rules. There was always sufficient latitude on both sides to make a compromise. Basically, commercial trends are set which centre around music, fashion and life-style. So in the wake of the Beatles and the Merseybeat boon, came Swingin’ London, the Marquee, the Stones, Who, Yardbirds, Kinks, Animals, Manfred Mann, Carnaby Street, Vidal Sassoon, Twiggy, Kings Road, Discotheques, Mary Quant, Julie Christie, Michael Caine and the Dave Clark Five.ock ‘n’ roll knowledge for the British Beat Boom, but abroad they were something else.
InAmerica, it was a far different cup of meat, a situation which was tantamount to open hostility where Apple Pie and Ice Cream fought acne and teen discontent. Dissent was rife. After the initial flirtation, fashion was discarded and social paranoia set it.
Overnight, the clean-teen imagery was sacrificed, and on the West coast the sounds of surf boards being beached and buggies traded in for VWs obliterated the Surfin’ Beat of the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean and Dick Dale. Britain ruled. And it was to take America almost half-a-decade to recover.