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The English rock band the Beatles are commonly regarded as the foremost and most influential band in popular music history. With a line-up comprising John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr , they sparked the " Beatlemania " phenomenon in , gained international superstardom in , and remained active until their break-up in Over the latter half of the decade, they were often viewed as orchestrators of society's developments. Their recognition concerns their effect on the era's youth and counterculture , British identity , popular music's evolution into an art form , and their unprecedented following. Many cultural movements of the s were assisted or inspired by the Beatles. In Britain, their rise to national prominence signalled the youth-driven changes in postwar society, with respect to social mobility , teenagers' commercial influence, and informality. They spearheaded the shift from American artists' global dominance of rock and roll to British acts known in the US as the British Invasion and inspired many young people to pursue music careers. From to , the group had the top-selling US single one out of every six weeks, and the top-selling US album one out of every three weeks. In , they were awarded MBEs , the first time such an honour was bestowed on a British pop act. A year later, Lennon controversially remarked that the band were " more popular than Jesus now".

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Music And Social Movements Of The 1960s

A skinhead is a member of a subculture which originated among working class youths in LondonEnglandin the s and soon spread to other parts of the United Kingdomwith a second working class skinhead movement emerging worldwide in the late s.

Motivated by social alienation and working class solidarityskinheads often shortened to "skins" in the UK are defined by their close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing such as Dr. Martens and steel toe work boots, braceshigh rise and varying length straight-leg jeansand button-down collar shirts, usually slim fitting in check or plain. The movement reached a peak during the s, experienced a revival in the s, and, since then, has endured in multiple contexts worldwide. The rise to prominence of skinheads came in two waves, with the first wave taking place in the late s. The first skinheads were working class youths motivated by an expression of alternative values and working class pride, rejecting both the austerity and conservatism of the s-early s and the more middle class or bourgeois hippie movement and peace and love ethos of the mid to late s. Skinheads were instead drawn towards more working class outsider subculturesincorporating elements of early working class mod fashion and Jamaican music and fashion, especially from Jamaican rude boys.

The late s and early s saw a revival of the skinhead subculture, and increasing interaction between its adherents and the new punk movement. With these twin musical movements, the skinhead subculture diversified and contemporary skinhead fashions ranged from clean-cut s mod- and rude boy-influenced styles to less-strict punk -influenced styles. During the early s, political affiliations grew in significance and split the subculture, distancing the far right and left wing strands, although many skins described themselves as apolitical. As a pro-working class movement that was initially highly regionalised and excluded by society's moral norms, skinhead culture attracted those with nationalist beliefs, including violently racist or neo-Nazi fringe elements. Music And Social Movements Of The 1960s the s, neo-Nazi skinhead movements existed across all of Europe and North America, but were counterbalanced by the presence of groups such as Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice which sprung up in response.

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To this day, the skinhead subculture reflects a broad spectrum of political beliefs, even as many continue to embrace it as a largely apolitical working class movement. In the late s the post-war economic boom led to an increase in disposable income among many young people. Working class mods chose practical clothing styles that suited their lifestyle and employment circumstances: work boots or army bootsstraight-leg jeans or Sta-Prest trousersbutton-down shirts and Iso 9000. When possible, these working class mods spent their money on suits and other sharp outfits to wear at dancehalls, where they enjoyed soulskaand rocksteady music. Arounda schism developed between the peacock mods also known as smooth modswho were less violent and always wore the latest expensive Music And Social Movements Of The 1960s, and the hard mods also known as gang modslemonheads or peanutsThw were identified by their shorter hair and more working class image.

Skinheads may also have cut their hair short in defiance of the more middle class hippie culture. In addition to retaining Movemenfs mod influences, early skinheads were very interested in Jamaican rude boy styles and culture, especially the music: ska, rocksteady, and early reggae before the tempo slowed down and lyrics became focused on topics like black nationalism and the Rastafari movement.

Skinhead culture became so popular by that even the rock band Slade temporarily adopted the look as a marketing strategy. By the early s, the skinhead subculture started to fade from popular culture, and some of the original skins dropped into new categories, such as the suedeheads defined by the ability to manipulate one's hair with a combsmoothies often with shoulder-length hairstylesand bootboys with mod-length hair; associated with gangs and football hooliganism.

In the late s, the skinhead subculture was revived to a notable extent after the introduction of punk rock. Around this time, some skinheads became affiliated with far right groups such as the National Front and the British Movement.

There still remained, however, skinheads who preferred the original mod-inspired styles. Bands and DJ's play Ska and Oi! The event is strictly apolitical.]