The idea that was spawned in our minds that night was to grow, and it must be admitted that John succeeded in that promise far beyond I suggested we call ourselves the Dissenters. John would do it with his music, Stuart and Rod with their painting and myself with my writing. Over the pints of bitter we all decided to take a vow – we would use our talents to make Liverpool famous. We began to talk about Liverpool itself, a city with a proud heritage and lots of interesting things going on. He was English and his English background was obvious in his work. His writings in the Daily Howl had been comic pieces about the teachers and pupils he was familiar with. His influences were Lewis Carroll, the Goons and Stanley Unwin. He was a poet, but he did not copy the San Francisco poets. someone else’s environment rather than their own. To me, the Liverpool area was an exciting place with lots of creative people and I did not see why anyone should bother trying to write, paint or make music based on something outside their own experience, i.e.
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I pointed out that any creative person is better off expressing themselves with the familiarity of their own experience and environment. The Sunday People newspaper had swarmed over the Gambier Terrace flat trying to do a story on Beatniks (the flat was described in the paper under the heading ‘Beatnik Horror!’) and Beatniks, of course, were examples of British youth copying the American Beats. The conversation touched on the fact that there was a degree of American popular culture domination in Britain and people seemed to be copying it. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.ĬHAPTER ONE fascinated by ‘The Beat Generation’ depicted by Jack Kerouac and Co, and admired the American president John F.
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Published by CHROME DREAMS PO BOX 230 NEW MALDEN SURREY KT3 6YY UKĪll rights reserved. ISBN 1 84240 247 1 COPYRIGHT © 2004 Bill Harry EDITOR Rob Johnstone DESIGN Sylvia Grzeszczuk THE BRITISH INVASION HOW THE BEATLES AND OTHER UK BANDS CONQUERED AMERICAī R I T I SH I NV ASI ON HOW THE BEATLES AND OTHER UK BANDS CONQUERED AMERICA by Bill HarryĪ CHROME DREAMS PUBLICATION FIRST EDITION 2004