Fact #95593
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Short story:
Chubby Checker plays at The Empire, Liverpool, UK.
Full article:
Spencer Leigh (journalist/broadcaster) : Chubby Checker came to Liverpool Empire, but it was a Sunday. The Lord's Day Observance Society was still a big thing then, and there was a local bye-law which forbade dancing on stage on the Sabbath. So Chubby came on and told us he could sing his songs, but he couldn't dance for us. Today, there would probably be a riot but incredibly, we all just meekly accepted it.
Betty Pomantini : The Twist started a craze for increasingly unusual dances, getting more and more bizarre, like The Frug, The Elephant Walk, The Lurch. By about 1964 people had just got tired of it all, and that's when rock'n'roll dancing became free self-expression, which is what's it's been more or less ever since.
George Melly (musician/author) : The Twist was, above all, a dance for the very young. Danced by the young, it is certainly immensely erotic, but danced, and danced badly, by the middle-aged it becomes obscene. For some reason, it was the last dance which the middle-aged felt obliged to learn.
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Betty Pomantini : The Twist started a craze for increasingly unusual dances, getting more and more bizarre, like The Frug, The Elephant Walk, The Lurch. By about 1964 people had just got tired of it all, and that's when rock'n'roll dancing became free self-expression, which is what's it's been more or less ever since.
George Melly (musician/author) : The Twist was, above all, a dance for the very young. Danced by the young, it is certainly immensely erotic, but danced, and danced badly, by the middle-aged it becomes obscene. For some reason, it was the last dance which the middle-aged felt obliged to learn.