Old music: The Knickerbockers – Lies

This New Jersey band was so Beatlesesque that some listeners mistook them for the Fab FourDon't assume for one moment that the Knickerbockers' appalling name means they were telling the world they were pants. In fact, they were named after Knickerbocker Road in their hometown of Bergenfield, New Jersey.In 1965 the Beatles' popularity was at its zenith, spawning imitators in every town. Some, obviously, were better than others. The Knickerbockers were serial bandwagon jumpers, one single imitatin...

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