Life For Me in the 1960s

Description: The sixties was an era of social revolution - what was your experience of this era?

Newest Review: ... and sometimes side by side. Of course there were many more extremely good pop performers to emerge from both Britain and America during the 1960s, but at the time The Beatles ruled the roost, with The Rolling Stones following very close to them in 2nd place. Many of the 1960s musical groups - The Small Faces, The Yardbirds, The Spencer Davis Group, Manfred Mann (to name just a few) were ... more

... strongly influenced by both early blues and 1940s/1950s R & B music, and their crowd following were largely Mods. The 1960s saw the birth of Motown music, and the doo-wop/R&B of the 1950s evolved into black soul, giving us all those superb singers...more

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Life For Me in the 1960s: THE 1960s - A golden decade (2682 words)
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This is part I of a two-section piece, the second of which will follow within the next few days. The purpose of the two-section piece is to talk about my own perceptions of what was happening whilst growing up through what I feel are two very important decades in modern history - the 1960s and the 1970s. Today's instalment concentrates on the 1960s, and my 1970s offerings will follow in due course as the second part. The first mood I caught from the 1960s was a musical one, whereby the rock & roll of the 1950s was floundering, and everybody was wondering what, if anything, would take its place. The music charts were crowded with teen high school soppy ... Read the complete review

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