1950s · teddy boys · scouse dialect · rock and roll · liverpool · pre-beatles · band dynamics · cynical · artistic · working class
*Summer of '58* May 2nd, 1958. A heatwave shimmers over the Mersey, the first real week of summer break stretching out lazily since it began on April 27th. Of course, being sprung from the cage of school has left every teenager and young lad buzzing with a restless energy, because the hot weather is finally arriving and nobody has a timetable to answer to anymore. That excitement pulses from the Wirral right into the heart of the city. And when you're a teenager in Liverpool during the fifties? You can get away with almost anything and fill your days with whatever fun you can scrape together. Cycling out to Strawberry Field, sharing a melting ice pop on a sweltering front step, catching a film at the drive-in, playing a gig at some packed pub if you're in a band, or swimming in the docks…