{"id":2445,"date":"2014-10-10T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennywilson.org\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2014-10-10T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:08:09","slug":"mods-in-leicester-u-k-in-the-mid-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennywilson.space\/index.php\/2014\/10\/10\/mods-in-leicester-u-k-in-the-mid-1960s\/","title":{"rendered":"Mods in Leicester U.K. in the mid 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is copied from an article about Mods in Leicester in the mid 1960s printed in&nbsp;the <em>Leicester Mercury<\/em> in<em>&nbsp;<\/em>2010. It is the only thing that comes up if you <em>Google<\/em> some of the Coffee Bars and Clubs in Leicester around at that time. The internet&nbsp;<em>Information Revolution<\/em> seems to start in the 1990s and knowledge&nbsp;about earlier times appears&nbsp;to be getting lost, or just isn&#8217;t there!! The article actually presents a pretty accurate picture of some of the things that happened then and the places that people went to. It complements my post about <em><a title=\"My Life In Music\" href=\"http:\/\/kennywilson.org\/my-life-in-music\/\">My Life in Music<\/a><\/em>. The <em>Irish <\/em>was one of the main fashion shops but it was actually in <em>Silver Arcade <\/em>which was <em>off<\/em> Silver Street. It subsequently moved to the corner of Silver Street and High Street and is still there now, I believe, but it&#8217;s not the fashionable place it once was. The article&nbsp;also talks about the <em>Antelope<\/em> pub. I must have missed this totally because, although I remember the pub, I never went into it. I thought&nbsp;it was an &#8220;old man&#8217;s pub&#8221;. The main pubs we went to were the <em>Fish and Quart <\/em>on Churchgate and the <em>Churchill <\/em>on Silver Street which is now <em>The Lamplighters. The Churchill&nbsp;<\/em>became the trendy place to be from 1968 onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marlon Brando ~ The Wild One(1953)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yCENBce_dls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><em>Marlon Brando in &#8220;The Wild One&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The interesting thing about the rivalry of the Mods and the Rockers was that it was invented by the media. If you look at the headlines they scream out about the <em>Wild Ones!&nbsp;<\/em>Actually, this is a reference to the <em>Marlon Brando<\/em> film &#8220;The Wild One&#8221; which was banned in Britain and not many people had seen it. <em>Brando<\/em> was the role model for the Rockers though, with his leather&nbsp;gear, macho swagger and surly attitude, to say nothing of the slurred drawl. <em>&#8220;Hey, Johnny whadaya rebelling against?&#8221;<\/em> <em>&#8220;Whadaya got?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em>Elvis Presley copied him too in his earliest and greatest incarnation, circa 1956. Originally, however, there was no conflict. In fact, Mods became Rockers and vice versa. It all changed in the reporting of events at Brighton in 1964 and the rest is history! I do remember an occasion at Avenue Road Youth Club which&nbsp;was a Rocker stronghold. I&#8217;d been told to give a message by&nbsp;a group of Mods to Dave Buswell, leader of the local Rockers&nbsp;and as mean a looking guy as you could wish to meet. He was terrifying! The Mods were on Victoria Park ready for a battle. At that point all hell broke loose as they rushed out for the affray. Personally, I decided to go home and have a night in, watching telly! It was one battle I had no desire to fight and I didn&#8217;t even really know if I was a Mod or Rocker supporter then! I kind of liked them both!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did eventually side with the Mods because, actually, the music was a lot&nbsp;better and the coffee bars and clubs were much&nbsp;more exciting! And although the girls weren&#8217;t any better looking, they were far less ferocious!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kennywilsonmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/08\/unnamed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kennywilsonmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/08\/unnamed.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5487\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Sensational coverage of what was essentially a non-event of bored teenagers with nowhere to go! This is what created the Mods and Rockers clash!!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kennywilsonmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/08\/1_mods-1960s_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kennywilsonmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/08\/1_mods-1960s_04.jpg?w=597\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5489\" width=\"408\" height=\"699\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Juke Boxes were a massively important way of listening to new music.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>Turn left at the Clock Tower, head towards High Street, pass Cheapside, veer&nbsp;off by the amusement arcade and you\u2019re there \u2013 right in the heart of Leicester\u2019s&nbsp;pill-popping, sharp-dressing, scooter-revving, hedonistic counterculture&#8221;, writes&nbsp;<strong>Mark Charlton.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or at least you would be if this was still the swinging 60s.&nbsp;If London had Carnaby Street at the heart of its Mod scene, Leicester had&nbsp;Silver Street.&nbsp;With their tailor-made suits, parkas and scooters, the Mods had a huge impact&nbsp;on the streets of mid-60s Leicester.&nbsp;They\u2019d ride into town on their Vespas and Lambrettas to hit the coffee bars&nbsp;and hear the latest jukebox sounds from bands such as The Who, The Kinks and The&nbsp;Small Faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rows and rows of scooters would be parked up in city centre streets,&nbsp;particularly outside bars such as Cadena, in Belvoir Street, and Kenco Coffee&nbsp;House, in Granby Street.&nbsp;But Silver Street was the real magnet for the Mods. That\u2019s where Irish&nbsp;Clothing store was. That\u2019s where Il Rondo was. That\u2019s where you went to be seen.&nbsp;That\u2019s where their real-life version of Quadrophenia played out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Barratt, 60, who grew up in Humberstone, was one of Leicester\u2019s original&nbsp;Mods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSilver Street was our Carnaby Street,\u201d he remembers. \u201cI don\u2019t know why but&nbsp;it was just a big happening for us there.&nbsp;I guess it had a lot to do with Irish Clothing and the Il Rondo, and there&nbsp;was also a pub called the Antelope.&nbsp;I think it just drew us to the area as there were places we could meet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-zUNztivz0SE\/U1dm5pp6D5I\/AAAAAAAAG1Q\/DMbLqgAwmAo\/w800-h480-no\/12-219EA8A9-230228-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption><em>The site of the Il Rondo on Silver Street. Now a restaurant. The original entrance was where the white doors are now.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Leicester was buzzing with these hip, rebellious kids who wanted to make&nbsp;their mark on the world by dressing smartly and listening to the hottest new&nbsp;sounds.&nbsp;It was their way of getting noticed and making a point to their elders.&nbsp;John says: \u201cIn the 50s and early 60s, young people were almost penned in,&nbsp;everything was dictated to them. When Mod came along, it was our way of saying \u2018we are human beings\u2019. We were&nbsp;trying to put over our feelings that we weren\u2019t going to put up with being told&nbsp;what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mod scene, with its slick fashion and fascination with black American&nbsp;soul music, had spread north from London, fed by newspapers reporting on violent&nbsp;clashes between Mods and Rockers in Brighton and Margate in 1964, and by&nbsp;broadcasts on Radio Caroline. Young people in Leicester were quick to pick up on&nbsp;the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John says: \u201cThe first Mods were in Leicester by 1964. It was sweeping the&nbsp;country at that time.&nbsp;I was still at school and started getting into the music and the fashions. I knew I wanted to be a Mod.&nbsp;When I turned 16 I bought my scooter. At that time, I had a good job in&nbsp;engineering. I needed it. Being a Mod was expensive. You had to keep up with all&nbsp;the latest fashions, for a start.&nbsp;Then you had to run your scooter, keeping it taxed and on the road before&nbsp;buying all the accessories to make it look as good as possible.&nbsp;Then there was the music. You had to keep up with all the new music coming out, plus the wild life that went with it and on top of all that you had to try&nbsp;to keep a girl on your arm.&nbsp;I earned good money in engineering, but I didn\u2019t save a penny.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-y4iialgVdyo\/VDvioLkQ9TI\/AAAAAAAAXqg\/_ieu9mYubr8\/w1278-h720-no\/WP_20130823_014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption><em>A Mod Lambretta scooter not yet customised! This is a picture I took recently at a Mod exhibition in Northampton.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Another young Mod was Chris Busby, from the West End of Leicester. He recalls&nbsp;choosing to be a Mod when he was still at school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kennywilsonmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/08\/0_lm-mods-dec27.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kennywilsonmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/08\/0_lm-mods-dec27.jpg?w=615\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5490\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Chris Busby in the 1960s<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was 14 in 1964 and we thought \u2018should we be Mods or rockers?\u2019. I looked at&nbsp;the rockers, they were greasers and horrible. I looked at the Mods, they were so&nbsp;clean looking and smart with their scooters. I wanted to be like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris remembers Leicester was a great place to be at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere was so much going on,\u201d he says. \u201cThe music was fantastic, there were&nbsp;some great places to go and lots of house parties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris was part of a Leicester Mod band called <em>CERT X<\/em>. Other notable Mod acts&nbsp;from the city\u2019s scene were <em>The Cissy<\/em> and <em>Legay<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John saw them perform at several gigs in the 60s. He says: \u201cCERT X was a&nbsp;really good local band, really good.&nbsp;The highlight of the band\u2019s career was supporting Cream at Nottingham University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The music scene was vibrant at that time. Chris remembers: \u201cA place called&nbsp;the <em>Night Owl<\/em> opened, in Newarke Street, in 1966, which put on all-nighters. I&nbsp;think (soul singer) <em>Geno Washington<\/em> recorded an album there.&nbsp;Bands like <em>Amen Corner<\/em> also appeared there. There were a lot of people&nbsp;taking drugs like blues and dexys, and I think that is why it got shut down quite quickly.&nbsp;<em>The Green Bowler<\/em>, in Churchgate, was popular too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leicester in the mid 60s was already something of a cultural melting pot.&nbsp;Lots of young black kids were mixing with white lads at nightclubs and gigs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris says: \u201cIt was a good time. We were friends with a lot of the black&nbsp;lads, there was never any trouble between us \u2013 we all respected one another. The&nbsp;only time we ever had aggro was with the rockers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mods\u2019 cats-v-dogs relationship with the rockers is well documented.&nbsp;Seaside skirmishes at Brighton and Margate and made national news but there&nbsp;was plenty of trouble in Leicester, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John says: \u201cThe rockers used to hang out down at the Roman Cafe, in&nbsp;Humberstone Road. It was part of the life of a Mod to have problems with the&nbsp;rockers, or Hell\u2019s Angels.&nbsp;They were so different from us. We would roll up at the Roman Cafe on our&nbsp;scooters just so we could have a scrap. They would come looking for us,&nbsp;too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kennywilsonmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/rockers-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kennywilsonmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/rockers-1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Rockers!\" class=\"wp-image-2508\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Rockers! Mind you, these look a bit too old to be genuine Rockers.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris remembers one incident: \u201cWe were at the Casino Ballroom at the top of&nbsp;London Road.&nbsp;A popular boxer, Alex Barrow, was there, a black guy, with two of his&nbsp;friends. Two rockers walked in, and one of the lads with Alex said \u2018you hit my&nbsp;mate\u2019 and knocked one of them flying. Within 30 minutes, hundreds of rockers&nbsp;were flying down London Road on their motorbikes heading for the club.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was an unwritten hierarchy within the Mods. If you were particularly&nbsp;cool, you were a \u2018face\u2019. If you could not keep up with the pace of the scene,&nbsp;you were seen as a \u2018ticket\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris says: \u201cThe older lads, who were about two or three years older, were&nbsp;working and could afford better clothing. We looked up to them, they were the&nbsp;faces to us.&nbsp;There wasn\u2019t a rank as such, but we were subconsciously aware the&nbsp;differences were there. We knew the older ones to nod at, there was never any&nbsp;problem between us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John says: \u201cThere was a lad called Tony Weston. He was king of the Mods to&nbsp;us.&nbsp;He was the organiser, our leader, always coming up with ideas and things todo. We all looked up to him because of the way he dressed and his scooter.\u201d&nbsp;John had a Vespa 125cc GL scooter. \u201cRegistration 461 BBC,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll never forget it. It had all the gear \u2013 spotlamps, a big aerial at the&nbsp;back, a slimline windscreen and so many mirrors it was a wonder it moved, it was&nbsp;so weighed down.&nbsp;I had so many spotlamps that if I turned on the lights without the engine&nbsp;running it would flatten the battery.\u201d&nbsp;But keeping your scooter up to scratch was a big part of it. It cost a&nbsp;bloody fortune.&nbsp;The main place for buying scooters at that time was a place called Readers,in Aylestone. We all went there.&nbsp;Scooters were appealing at the time because you could do hundreds of miles&nbsp;on a tank of petrol.&nbsp;A group of us went to Yarmouth. It took us the best part of six hours to get&nbsp;there. It was a steady run and we only used a tank-and-a-half of petrol there&nbsp;and back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris had a Lambretta li 150 with green and white stripped side panels and&nbsp;fur on the seats. \u201cIt cost me \u00a330 in 1966 and wasn\u2019t anything special compared&nbsp;to some of the scooters around but it was special to me,\u201d he says. \u201cIt would be&nbsp;worth about \u00a32,000 if I still had it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-1ophuwfTwP0\/U2q3Gbzh3nI\/AAAAAAAAPPY\/rVXFHwxSC7I\/w1278-h720-no\/WP_20130823_010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" \/><figcaption><em>Another Lambretta. Poster of a Vespa in the background!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris also did his fair share of going to Mod events at coastal resorts, even&nbsp;taking a job in Skegness. But there was plenty going on in Leicester. Wednesday&nbsp;at Il Rondo, in Silver Street, was Mod night, on Sunday, Mod music was played&nbsp;at The Palais de Danse, in Humberstone Gate, and the Casino Ballroom, in London&nbsp;Road, held regular live events.&nbsp;Music was the lifeblood of the scene.&nbsp;All-night dances, or parties were often fuelled by the use of&nbsp;amphetamine-based drugs. Some were known as blues, or purple hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John says: \u201cPeople were taking them because, if you didn\u2019t there was no way&nbsp;you would last the amount of time you were awake for.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe main thing was the music,\u201d says Chris. \u201cIt was so new and fresh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John says: \u201cThere were certain songs that were important to us, for example&nbsp;the Sir Douglas Quintet\u2019s <em>She\u2019s About a Mover<\/em> and <em>Louie Louie<\/em>, by the&nbsp;Kingsmen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fashion and hair styles still have a huge influence today. Chris has been&nbsp;a barber for 36 years and now has a shop, in Northampton Street. But when he&nbsp;needed a Mod cut back in the 60s, there was only one place to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kennywilsonmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/d860e-thewho.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption><em>The Who in the mid 60s. My Generation, one of the best records of all time!!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverybody went to Ron\u2019s, in Church Gate. It is still there.&nbsp;At the time, there was a look that was something close to how Paul Weller&nbsp;wears his hair now.&nbsp;Another was how Roger Daltry (singer in The Who) wore his, with a parting,&nbsp;although some people just wanted a close-cut, clean look. Mods felt the way&nbsp;they looked set them apart from the rest. Attention to detail was vital. Clothes&nbsp;would be made-to-measure and tight fitting.&nbsp;Shirts and suits would be sent to the tailor for more buttons to be added or&nbsp;taken away, depending on the mood.&nbsp;We\u2019d have bigger vents put in or more buttons put on our shirts, just to&nbsp;make them different. We were always trying to stay one step ahead,\u201d says Chris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-JF6pTFwwKpE\/U1dm2R389_I\/AAAAAAAAG0g\/smY4Blo22eo\/w800-h480-no\/12-5B31324A-307251-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption><em>Ron&#8217;s Hair Stylists on Churchgate, still going today!!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Having such smart clothes proved a problem motoring around town on a scooter.&nbsp;A US Army fishtail parka was ideal for keeping clean on the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John says: \u201cI had a parka and a mohair suit \u2013 well, several. We were always&nbsp;buying clothes, trying to have something new and to stay ahead of everyone&nbsp;else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-ZPrcw5zEzjc\/U1dYxd1xdvI\/AAAAAAAAEjs\/jo62J5NVARE\/w483-h857-no\/WP_20130823_013.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption><em>Mod parka. A photo I took at the same exhibition in Northampton.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris says: \u201cI never really got into the suit thing. Lots of people did&nbsp;though.&nbsp;On a Saturday, there was Jackson\u2019s the Tailors, in Gallowtree Gate, and&nbsp;Burton\u2019s, in Church Gate, which would have queues outside all day from the moment they opened, with people collecting clothes they had ordered, or being&nbsp;measured up for something.&nbsp;Jackson\u2019s was seen as a cut above the others because the staff would offer&nbsp;advice to the customers.&nbsp;Personally, I preferred wearing Levi Jeans, desert boots and a Ben Sherman&nbsp;shirt rather than a suit. I wanted to feel comfortable. Also jumpers with&nbsp;targets on, or shirts similar to those Roger Daltry was wearing at the time.&nbsp;I bought an overcoat from Irish for \u00a322. That was four weeks wages to me. I&nbsp;have still got it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 1967, the Mod scene was changing. Some were moving away from the slick&nbsp;looks and sounds and moving into psychedelic music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey were what we called the \u2018flower children\u2019, says John. \u201cThey were&nbsp;getting in to what became the hippy thing. I guess bands like The Who and Small&nbsp;Faces had become more psychedelic, particularly the Small Faces with their album&nbsp;Ogden\u2019s Nut Gone Flake. I moved on to other things but I have never stopped&nbsp;feeling that I am a Mod. Even now, I\u2019m still a Mod. I love the Mods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some stuck to their cause of being a Mod and others became interested in the&nbsp;skinhead scene, which was emerging in the late 60s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris, a married dad of three, remembers: \u201cI was working in Skegness in 1969&nbsp;and I could still see running battles between Mods and rockers.&nbsp;I went on to become interested in other things, but years later I was&nbsp;thinking about the look and how much I enjoyed wearing the clothes, so I went&nbsp;back to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo now I wear a Ben Sherman, Levi jeans and desert boots. I love it, and the&nbsp;music, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1979, The Who brought out the movie Quadrophenia. It told the story of the&nbsp;Mods, their clashes with rockers, the girls, the drugs, the parties. The film was to coincide with and widen the impact of a Mod revival, which had started in&nbsp;London a few months earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris said it was very true to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty close,\u201d he says. \u201cParticularly a scene in Brighton as Jimmy&nbsp;(Phil Daniels) walks along the seafront with all the other Mods.&nbsp;Somebody asks him what the best thing about being a Mod is. He says&nbsp;something like \u2018being here, amongst all this\u2019. And it was spot on.&nbsp;That buzz, the buzz of being part of it at that time, that is exactly how&nbsp;being a Mod felt.\u201d<strong>(Mark Charlton Leicester Mercury 2010)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kennywilsonmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/df3ed-mod_vs_rocker_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption><em>The press invented the clash between Mods and Rockers and then everyone believed it! It was propaganda on the scale\u00a0of Goebbels!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/Lost-Tribes-Leicestershire-Mods\/story-12092027-detail\/story.html#ixzz3FkFGmKii\">http:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/Lost-Tribes-Leicestershire-Mods\/story-12092027-detail\/story.html#ixzz3FkFGmKii<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is copied from an article about Mods in Leicester in the mid 1960s printed in&nbsp;the Leicester Mercury in&nbsp;2010. It is the only thing that comes up if you Google some of the Coffee Bars and Clubs in Leicester around at that time. 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