Book contents
- Dreams and Songs to Sing
- Dreams and Songs to Sing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- 1 Maidstone 1987
- 2 Anfield 1906
- 3 Chester 1946
- 4 Huddersfield 1959
- 5 London 1965
- 6 Liverpool 1974
- 7 Rome 1977
- 8 Toxteth 1981
- 9 Brussels 1985
- 10 Sheffield 1989
- 11 Scunthorpe 1994
- 12 Istanbul 2005
- 13 London 2010
- 14 Paris 2022
- 15 Parkdale 2024
- Notes
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Works Cited
- Index
5 - London 1965
Bigger than the Beatles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2025
Book contents
- Dreams and Songs to Sing
- Dreams and Songs to Sing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- 1 Maidstone 1987
- 2 Anfield 1906
- 3 Chester 1946
- 4 Huddersfield 1959
- 5 London 1965
- 6 Liverpool 1974
- 7 Rome 1977
- 8 Toxteth 1981
- 9 Brussels 1985
- 10 Sheffield 1989
- 11 Scunthorpe 1994
- 12 Istanbul 2005
- 13 London 2010
- 14 Paris 2022
- 15 Parkdale 2024
- Notes
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Liverpool’s FA Cup final win over Leeds United is the jumping off point here for a chapter on LFC, the Beatles, and Liverpool’s social history in a period when the city was, in the words of poet Allen Ginsberg, ‘the centre of consciousness of the human universe’. Ginsberg was on Merseyside in May 1965, the month in which Liverpool beat Leeds to win the club’s first FA Cup. The ensuing celebrations, as one local newspaper remarked, made The Beatles’ recent homecoming ‘look like a vicarage tea party’. Central to this chapter is the interlinked role of football and music as mass cultural forces behind Liverpool’s resurgent civic pride in the 1960s.
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- Dreams and Songs to SingA People's History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp, pp. 73 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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