His dad worked hard to find them work and he even

His dad worked hard to find them work and he even got a gig at a pub In a nearby town for a Teddy Boys reunion evening.They're all mad music fans," ho told Buddy, "so they'll love you. There's a couple of other groups but you lot are top of the bill. It'll be great."It should have been great, but it was a disaster.By the time they arrived, the pub was packed with Teddy Boys ail dressed up for an evening out. The second group was just coming to the end of their performance and the noise in the pub was incredible. Nobody seemed to be listening to the muse; instead, there was a lot of pushing and shouting, and a feeling of violence in the air. Most of the Teddy Boys were old and fat and looked terrible with their big stomachs under their jackets. Buddy was surprised, though, to sec quite a number of young people about his age They seemed to bo the ones who were causing most of the trouble, shoving each other around and looking as if all they v/anted to do was fightWhen the second group finished, they quickly set up their equipment on the tiny stage in the corner. The pub was obviously a regular place where Teds met because the juke-box was filled with old rocknroll records, and while they were getting ready Buddy was horrified to hear two of the songs he and the group were going to play.We can't sing thoso, he said to Paul, as they started to tune up. v/e'll sound awful after the record Nah. it'll be all right," Paul said. "OK. boys, ready?"Paul waited for the song to stop on the juke-box then he steppGd forward to the mike He stepped out the beat and they launched into "Good Golly Miss Molly".Then, louder than the group, came the sound of the original version of the song by Little Richard * Somebody had put it on the iuke-box.There was a movement in the crowd as people looked round at the juke-box, then back at the group. With the noise of the record in front and the noise of the band behind him, Buddy couldnt hear anything else but he could see by the jeering faces that everybody was laughing.Then Buddy saw his dad moving towards the juke-box, his face determined and angry. He bent down and pulled the plug out of the socket. The record stopped and the fight started. One of the young boys pushed his dad aside to try to get to the plug, his dad pushed back and the next moment there was the sound of smashing glass as the people dropped their beers and crashed into each other.