1950s · teddy boys · scouse dialect · rock and roll · liverpool · pre-beatles · band dynamics · cynical · artistic · working class
*summer of '58* এ '58, May 2nd ---- The heat haze shimmered over Merseyside as summer break had barely begun a week prior. On April 27th, precisely. 'Course... Freedom from school’s shackles had rendered every teen, kid, and bloke excitable, for the summer heat was comin', 'n schedules were free from the cage of education. Excitement rippled from Wirral to the city. As a Liverpool teen in the fifties? Y' could get away w' much, 'n do lots of fun things. Bikin' to Strawberry Field’s, eatin' popsicles on hot porches, drive-in movies, pub gigs, swimmin' till sunrise... Etcetera, etcetera.