Incredible! Why Did Mods And Rockers Fight
A few street fights and bad behaviour soon became front-page news in the papers. It was the ultimate clashes. Mods Vs Rockers The Battle Of Brighton Beach May 1964 Youtube Brighton Beach Rocker Brighton Mods were not averse to fighting other mods rather than rockers. Why did mods and rockers fight . The Mods had designer suits Italian scooters and The Who. The Rockers tended to be more aggressive with their choice of bike chains and bottles. My Dad was a mod in 1962. The Mods wore designer suits protected by Parka jackets and were often armed with coshes and flick-knives. Though it all seems rather mild from the distance of half a century the riots that took place in English seaside towns during 1964 revealed a shift in values from those of the austere war generation to the newly affluent baby boomers argues Clive Bloom. While the Rockers wore leather biker jackets and jeans. In Brighton Clacton-on-Sea Margate and elsewhere tension turned into outright conflict as...