THE BEAT GOES ON

THE BEAT GOSE ON

DEPARTMENTS

The Beat And The American Way

BIRMINGHAM, MIߞ“The new music is being supported by the kids, and that’s who it’s for. It doesn’t matter if the radio ain’t gonna play it,’ cause the kids are going to make such a wall that everything is going to fall down in front of it,” said Paul Collins of the Beat, and he may be right.

The Beat have been touring America with the Jam (“They’re not wimps”—Paul Collins) and are enjoying some success. They are a rock ’n’ roll band, as opposed to a rock band. They are traditional, but certhinly not redundant.