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Fact #127294

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Short story:

The Who play at The Mojo Club, Sheffield, UK.

Full article:

Joseph Brown (Mojo Club regular) : We were just teenagers at a time when teenagers were first discovering their freedom! And we loved music so we started going to the club every week, from the day it opened to the day it closed. It was just up the road and it was quite something! People used to come from all over – Lincoln, even London! And everyone came for the music. There was just a coffee bar – no alcohol sold there. When it started it cost two shillings and sixpence to get in! The décor wasn’t much – all black paint inside but the music was fantastic!
(Source : http://www.burngreavemessenger.org/archives/2007/february-2007-issue-68/king-mojo-club/)

Peter Stringfellow (founder, Mojo Club) : It started off as a blues club, then became a rhythm and blues club, then a soul club, a pop art club and a psychedelic flower power club, because that was the way my mind worked. I mixed all this music together, so in one month in 1965 you would have Wilson Pickett, The Who, the Small Faces and Geno Washington playing.
(Source : http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/features/stringfellow-on-the-club-that-made-sheffield-swing-in-the-60s-1-2323331)

Dave Manvell (club regular) : With the advent of mod groups like The Who and the Small Faces, hair styles changed yet again becoming slightly shorter and lots of back combing going on. I think this was when the Mojo’s own fashion styles started to take off and went that bit further than the mod styles of the time." "One of the fashions at the time was pin stripe suits, brown brogues and the need to carry a blue nylon mac - a derivative of the black pac-a-mac. This then seemed to develop into the gangster period which coincided with the American TV series The Untouchables; a story of the prohibition.

Things just went wild at the Mojo with fashions changing every week. The length of vents in your suit would be changing daily. Many of the coats were doubled breasted and even the number of buttons became important with hand stitched lapels and button holes. The trousers bottom sizes ranged from normal to Oxford bag sizes going form 19 inches upwards.
(Source : http://www.themodgeneration.co.uk/2011/11/dirty-stop-outs-guide-to-1960s.html)

Tom Field (Mojo club regular) : I used to frequent the King Mojo club in the mid sixties, which was a really cool Mod club. Out side in the car park there were lines of Vespa's and Lambrettas with chrome gleaming in the sunlight. All the girls no matter where they came from and what ever class wanted to be seen on the back of a scooter.

I saw most of the top bands there including The Who. I will never forget Pete Townsend smashing all the lightbulbs across the stage then totaly wrecking his amp and guitar. Also remember Keith Moon diving at his bass drum trying to put his head through it.
(Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/articles/2008/06/19/peter_stringfellow_feature.shtml)