Woodstock

[Carvill John]

>Quarry Rank High School

Quarry Bank.

> Both, Beatles & Stones, rose out of the major post war class struggle

The Beatles undoubtedly did have an effect on what happened to class distinctions etc. But I don't think it's accurate to say that they 'arose' out of class struggles. They certainly would not have seen themselves in that light.



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> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:38:03 -0400
> Subject: Re: Woodstock
> From: alicewellintown at gmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>
> In his Introduction to the SL tales Pynchon notes the new freedom that
> writers felt they had after prose fiction turned a working class
> corner and the young writers understood that they didn't need to write
> like Shakespeare or Nabokov for that matter. Kinda like the story of
> the Quarry Rank High School lads who,"for the first time realized that
> music did not belong to the musicians and that anyone could get up and
> have a go at it. It was like giving paint sets to monkeys
> ...skiffle..." (paraphrase Hunter Davies)

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