Old music: The Barbarians – Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?

This 1966 novelty single neatly satirised confusions over gender roles with rough and ready charmPassions ran high when men starting growing their hair longer in the 60s. Looking back at the Beatles' modest pudding-basin jobs now it's hard to understand how threatened the older generation seemed by the Moptops' moptops. A tedious symptom of this was the joke that sustained many a comedian through the decade: you couldn't tell the boys from the girls any more!The Barbarians, a garage band from Ca...

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