When The Beatles first arrived, they were seen as a straight forward pop group, but the difference was that they wrote their own songs. The 1963 transition in the music scene was definitely that more songwriters performed their own songs, rather than stars being ‘manufactured’ by songwriters and music publishers; the writers churned the songs [...]
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Clubbing in the Sixties at The Marquee Club
18 August, 2008 – 10:28 am
As a teenager, Carnaby Street and the West End clubs became really important to us. In the spring of ‘64, The Marquee had just moved from Oxford Street to 90 Wardour Street and I got a job working there for Harold Pendleton who owned the club with his wife Barbara and jazz musician Chris Barber. [...]