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The showbands straddled the musical Wholesale New Era Hatsand social revolution that began with Elvis Presley, then accelerated through The Beatles.On the ballroom floor, jiving gave way to the twist, the shake and so on . . . but the slow dance or lurch at the end of the evening remained as pairings solidified.The bands and the ballrooms were an Irish solution to a timeless problem: how does boy meet girl? Some folk choose to remember the showband years through a fog of nostalgia for an age of innocence as if they were a warm-up act before the big bang of sex and drugs.
That is self-serving deceit: droves of showbandWholesale New Era Hats Free Shipping musicians were busy unzipping their flies after they had packed up their instruments at the end of a gig. And they had little difficulty finding a partner with whom to tango.But then a night of heavy petting followed an evening of light-footed dancing for many of the punters who paid at the door. The Irish were never as chaste as they were portrayed by religious and political finger-waggers.
In his novel, Paul Charles tells it as it was. He includesNew Era outlet a series of well-researched statistics: there were 760 showbands in the early 1960s, and he has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the decade's most successful bands.He points out that they blossomed in the wake of World War Two when the emerging phenomenon of rock music was on a roll and the Troubles in the North were just around the corner. And it is in this window that The Last Dance is set.