Talk:Mods and rockers

message: This is the first I've ever read/heard that the Rockers were primarily a rural youth-cultural phenomenon. Is there a source for this? This seems to contradict the fact that the centers of Rocker culture in England during the height of the movement were the Ace Cafe and the 59 Club, both based in London. I think the fact that Mod-Rocker clashes happened mostly outside of London was due to the fact that there were large numbers of them and alcohol was involved, as it was usually during bank holidays. I'm sure there were many smaller Mod-Rocker clashes throughout London and other major cities, but that they were on a smaller scale and, thus, less likely to be sensationalized by the media. Any original Rockers (or Mods) who can lend some first-hand perspective to this? AE Logan (talk) 20:17, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The sources are  "Mods were usually city dwellers (it was, by this time, a national phenomenon, although rooted in London), whereas Rockers tended to be more rural" and  "Mods and Rockers were not natural enemies, since their geographical areas were separate; Mods were usually from London and Rockers were usually from Northern towns, and physical confrontation between the groups had to be created by having them meet outside of their natural habitats". Of course, neither of these sources are definitive, but the impression seems to be that Mods were more centred on London. Billwilson5060 (talk) 08:03, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Those are blog pages and fail WP:SOURCES --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 11:13, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

text: Would the word 'provincial' do instead of 'rural'? I think there is also a social class issue here that isn't examined. Peter York has some interesting stuff to say in Style Wars about the origin - and revival - of Mods.Bluedawe 07:55, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Rockers were predominately rural?

message: I find that this article is suspiciously similar to one of the links (BBC).
Checking the terms of use of that webpage, they appear to me as being incompatible with the GFDL.
Can anybody confirm if there is a copyright issue here? 
And if so, who is copying who? (this article or the BBC one)
If it turns out to be a false alarm, please give reasons and keep them here to avoid future concerns.
: I would agree, 18 months later, that this article does indeed appear to be derivative, although there are differences such as the correction suggesting that there was a little musical common ground. The BBC article is linked, which isn't usually what counts as piracy. I don't think this article needs to be thrown out, but I'll try to find if there is an appropriate tag to attach calling for a wider range of sources. Billwilson5060 (talk) 10:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The remaining copyvio from this source has now been removed. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 04:45, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: copyright infringement?

message: :"They later developed into Hells Angels."
This does not make sense. The Hells Angels were founded in California in the 1940s, so how could they have developed out of a 1960s British youth culture? As far as I know they aren't even present in the British Isles. Can whoever added this sentence explain it, please? --No-One Jones (talk) 09:53, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Because no one has gotten around to writing a separate article on Rockers to replace the redirect.  Wanna write one? PKM
"The mods adopted a pose of scooter-driving sophistication, wearing suits and other cleancut outfits."  True, but the article should mention the parkas the Mods wore, especially on their scooters.  In the photographs of mods-on-scooters of the period I seem to recall lots of parkas but rarely a Tonik suit.   Marshall46 12:26, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Mods and Rockers

message: Why did mods and rockers fight each other? --Abdull 18:36, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is no peace 

message: has added content from what appears to be his own recently published autobiography; this appears to be opinion and may not be considered as neutral and a reliable source. This editor has self-identified at User talk:Jim1138#Mods & RockersColFergStod (talk) 11:21, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
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