Mods and Rockers Rebooted
We take a fresh look at the bank holiday clashes of 1964 to separate fact from fiction as we bring the mods and rockers of the time back to those seaside crime scenes. Were they really as bad as the papers made out? Or was there something else behind it all?
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The birth of the mod
Duration: 02:48
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Mods and rockers revisited
Duration: 01:56
Music Played
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Les Baxter
Shooting Star
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The Swingin’ Tomatoes
Get It Poppin
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Slim Harpo
Baby Scratch My Back
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The Ramsey Lewis Trio
The In Crowd (Bohemian Caverns, 1965)
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Ronnie Jones
Night Time is the Right Time
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Jackie Ross
I Dig His Style
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Hank Ballard and the Midnighters
The Continental Walk
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Afro Blues Quintet
La, La, La, La, La
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Chris Kenner
I Like It Like That
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Gene Vincent
Race With The Devil
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Gene Vincent
Jumps Giggles and Shouts
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Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
Black Denim Trousers And Motorcycle Boots
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Marty Wilde
Bad Boy
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Gene Vincent
Baby Blue
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Jerry Lee Lewis
It'll Be Me
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Preston
Billy's Bag
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Jimmy Smith
Walk On The Wild Side
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Mac Rebennack
The Point
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Barrett Strong
Money (That's What I Want)
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Eddie Cochrain & Bo Davis
Let's Coast Awhile
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Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two
Get Rhythm
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The Tornados Meek
Telstar
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Duane Eddy
Because They're Young
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Little Richard
Rip It Up
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Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto
In The Basement
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Sugar Pie DeSanto
Soulful Dress
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Doris Troy
Just One Look
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Georgie Fame
Yeh Yeh
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The Chantels
Look In My Eyes
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Wilbert Harrison
Let's Stick Together
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John Lee Hooker
Ain't No Big Thing
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The Nashville Teens
Tobacco Road
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Shirley Ellis
Soul Time
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The Martinis
Hung Over
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Jackie Shane
Any Other Way
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Bo Diddley
You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover
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Buddy Holly & The Crickets
I Fought The Law
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The Spencer Davis Group
Keep On Running
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The Who
I Can't Explain
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Elvis Presley
Please Don't Stop Loving Me
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The Rolling Stones
I'm Free
Mods and rockers
This documentary marks the 50th anniversary of the famous mods and rockers clashes on the seafronts of south east England. Ìý
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Mods And Rockers Rebooted will take a fresh look at the fights which took place between March and August 1964 causing mass hysteria across Britain, and have since become the stuff of legend.
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They’ve inspired countless books, songs, musicians, artists, and a cult movie, Quadrophenia, which turns 35 in August and has devoted fans all over the world.
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The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú film will ask how much of what was reported at the time, and what was depicted in Quadrophenia, actually happened? Did the mods and the rockers really despise each other, or was there something else going on behind it all?
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To seek answers, and separate fact from fiction, the film, narrated by Quadrophenia star Phil Daniels, goes back to each location piecing together the events of 1964 in chronological order.
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It will reveal the real people behind the hard-hitting headlines, including interviews with mods and rockers who were there in 1964 (now in their 60s and 70s) taking them back to the seaside scenes of their crimes: Clacton, Margate, Brighton and Hastings.
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Finally, after 50 years of hype and hysteria, this film reveals what was really going on in 1964, and how an extraordinary mix of factors came together to create a compelling myth that endures to this day.
Mods and rockers 50 years on
Fifty years after the clashes of 1964 between mods and rockers at the seaside resorts of Hastings, Margate and Clacton, Phil Daniels tries to separate fact from fiction.
ÌýFormer policeman and rocker Ken German recalls how the Margate riots kicked off and reflects on the sentences handed out to those arrested.ÌýÌý
ÌýMod Tony Edwards remembers how the two groups clashed on the beach. Rocker Ray Beere likens the dramatic scenes on the north Kent coast to the Battle of Agincourt.
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on the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News website.
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Director | Matthew Wheeler |
Executive Producer | Linda Bell |
Narrator | Phil Daniels |
Broadcast
- Fri 22 Aug 2014 19:30Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One South, Cambridgeshire, South East, Oxfordshire & East only