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FROM AMERICAN STORY:
“…The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, came out. I could barely understand their accent. Pursued everywhere by screaming fans, the Beatles never stopped running. In the United States in 1965 The Beatles released four LPs. Fifty-seven songs. (The albums are The Early Beatles, March; Beatles VI, June; Help, August; and Rubber Soul, December.) By the time you were familiar with one record another had been released. The Beatles toured Britain, Europe, and America. Eight days a week, indeed. From England now came word of Carnaby Street, swinging London. Ferry Cross the Mersey, The Dave Clark Five, op art, miniskirts, The Yardbirds, and, of course, more on The Rolling Stones….”
And then I went.
….Soon, Linda and I find our way to Carnaby Street, emerging from the underground near Oxford Circus, itself a thoroughfare of English department stores. Carnaby Street reveals itself to be one clothing boutique jammed next to another. Music blares over hidden speakers. The clothes are colorful, but cheaply made. The walls are combinations of op art and psychedelic posters. The young Englishmen selling the clothes are abrupt and condescending. There is absolutely no revolutionary fervor. Linda and I leave, slightly puzzled.
As I looked for the promises I expected to find (the music, the excitement of the new age) there were endless disappointments. It was in the traditional that London was such an exciting town to me. The numerous vast parks with great avenues of trees shady in the summer: Hyde Park, Regent’s Park, Green Park, Battersea Park, and Hampstead Heath.
(From ETHAN RUSSELL:AN AMERICAN STORY )
