Liverpool’s FA Cup final win over Leeds United is the jumping off point here for a chapter on LFC, the Beatles, and Liverpool’s social history in a period when the city was, in the words of poet Allen Ginsberg, ‘the centre of consciousness of the human universe’. Ginsberg was on Merseyside in May 1965, the month in which Liverpool beat Leeds to win the club’s first FA Cup. The ensuing celebrations, as one local newspaper remarked, made The Beatles’ recent homecoming ‘look like a vicarage tea party’. Central to this chapter is the interlinked role of football and music as mass cultural forces behind Liverpool’s resurgent civic pride in the 1960s.