Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?

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InWhy Don’t We Do ItIn The Road?the author looks back to the 1960s and the global phenomenon surrounding four young men from Liverpool . . .The names and the songs are well known,but the „why?“ is more difficult to locate – even with hindsight – against the glare of the music industry’s powerful, myth-making apparatus. . .

John Astley deploys his forensic skills as a sociologist of cultureto develop an original take on the kaleidoscopic landscape that gave birth to The Beatlesphenomenon . . .

The reader is invited to take a peep back into the recent past – at the post-War years in England’s Liverpool. . .the trembling class structure of an exhausted society. . .the advent of „youth“ as a demographic force – and theexplosion of electronic music in the 1960s as British culture is unmade and remade. . .

„Why Don’t We Do It In TheRoad?“ is aquestionthat has gone unanswered for four decades – that is, until now .. .