Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties

[alice wellintown]

Sorry about that PDF crash. I shouldn't have sent that anyway. My
point is that the Beatles, call them working class or whatever, rose
out of a working class culture in Liverpool. A culture that did not
have the media-technology-marketing infrastructure or Americanization
of music and was therefore dependent on an audience that would come to
live shows. The audience was working class teens, young men and young
women who had no employment options in de-industrialized Liverpool,
but did choose their culture and music. The Beatles put on quite a
working class show for them in the Jazz Cave type places, underground.
My point is that they started in that culture of working class
Liverpool folks even if they were not factory workers but rather guys
trying to finish art school and make it as musicians.