| Weekenders trace their roots to the mods and rockers' bank holiday rave-ups on the south coast in the Sixties. |
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| Did it just pass by the mods 'n' rockers battling on the seafronts at Brighton, Bournemouth and Great Yarmouth? |
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| The design will need to incorporate all the same blogger tags, links and sidebar elements as the current template with scope for easy mods. |
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| Even the new dress codes and hairstyles of rockers, mods, or hippies became suspect. |
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| The tightness of their tapered trousers and their designer rollnecks make them look like 1960s mods. |
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| After all, parents in earlier times were once scandalised by teddy boys and mods and hippies and punks. |
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| Before there were mods and before flower power or hippies, there were beatniks. |
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| By the late 60s many working-class mods had evolved into skinheads, and were listening to the music coming out of Jamaica at the time. |
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| It was an era when official news bulletins were worrying themselves about mods and rockers, or the hallucinogenic drugs of the hippies. |
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| Downtown was jammed with punks, new romantics, mods, goths, all seemingly involved in an Important Subversive Project. |
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| But running to the mods and tattletaling on them is just puerile. |
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| Normally I'm alright with exams, and the guy sitting to my right during last year's history mods proclaimed me to be the essence of calm and collectedness. |
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| You don't have the punks and the mods, and all those groups. |
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| Don't throw away EMR shields on the MOD 3 rocket motors or fin restraint bands on all other motor mods. |
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| These are not widely recognised as qualifications, but are required for those taking part in certain competitions at the annual mods. |
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| Early mods watched French and Italian art films and read Italian magazines to look for style ideas. |
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| To keep their expensive suits clean and keep warm while riding, mods often wore long army parkas. |
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| Some mods evolved into, or merged with, subcultures such as individualists, stylists, and scooterboys. |
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| Many mods wore military parkas while driving scooters in order to keep their clothes clean. |
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| After the seaside resort brawls, the media began to associate Italian scooters with violent mods. |
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| Mark Gilman, however, claims that both mods and rockers could be seen at football matches. |
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| John Covach writes that in the United Kingdom, rockers were often engaged in brawls with mods. |
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| Perone describes the development of British pop and rock and roll music, from skiffle and the teen idols of the 1950s to the mods and rockers and the British Invasion. |
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| By the end of the 60s, the hard mods had become known as skinheads, who, in their early days, would be known for the same love of soul, rocksteady and early reggae. |
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| Many mods drove motor scooters, usually Vespas or Lambrettas. |
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| Some mods added four, ten, or as many as 30 mirrors to their scooters. |
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| One of the prosecutors in the trial of some of the Clacton brawlers argued that mods and rockers were youths with no serious views, who lacked respect for law and order. |
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| These mods, while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances. |
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| In the early 1960s, public transport stopped relatively early in the night, and so having scooters allowed mods to stay out all night at dance clubs. |
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| After a law was passed requiring at least one mirror be attached to every motorcycle, mods were known to add four, ten, or as many as 30 mirrors to their scooters. |
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| The cover of The Who's album Quadrophenia, which includes themes related to mods and rockers, depicts a young man on a Vespa GS with four mirrors attached. |
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| Once upon a time, there were those who turned heads with their breathless style relevance, the ace faces, be they mods, rockers or just courageous boulevardiers. |
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| But he found that around 20 years earlier the same things were written about the Teds, Mods and Rockers. |
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| It's also, conversely, the time for exams, removing finalists and most first years sitting Mods and Prelims. |
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| Like Teds, Mods, Rockabillies, Punks, Ravers and Goths, gay male fetish queens do not change much over the years. |
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| Top Comp appeals to racers and fans because it attracts a variety of cars, ranging from dragsters and Pro Mods to nostalgia dragsters and Pro Stockers. |
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| Mods are fantastic things, especially when they're exploring areas no one else is ever likely to venture, yet most exude a sense of being slightly janky. |
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| Good luck to Mods and Prelims candidates, but really, stop worrying. |
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| When the skinhead aesthetic was born in the late '60s, it was in reaction to the more fashion-conscious Mods. |
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