Neil Alden Armstrong
(born August 5, 1930) is a former American astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He
was the first person to set foot on the Moon. His first space flight was aboard Gemini 8 in 1966, for which he was the command
pilot. On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott. Armstrong's
second and last space flight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission on July 20, 1969. On this famous
"giant leap for mankind", Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface ("The Eagle has landed")
and spent 2.5 hours exploring while Michael Collins orbited above. Armstrong is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal
of Honour.

Before becoming
an astronaut, Armstrong was in the United States Navy and saw action in the Korean War. After the war, he served as a test
pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight
Research Center, where he flew over 900 flights in a variety of aircraft. As a research pilot, Armstrong served as project
pilot on the F-100 Super Sabre A and C aircraft, F-101 Voodoo, and the Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. He also flew the Bell
X-1B, Bell X-5, North American X-15, F-105 Thunderchief, F-106 Delta Dart, B-47 Stratojet, KC-135 Stratotanker and Paresev.
He graduated from Purdue University.
Muhammad Ali
(born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and former three-time World Heavyweight
Champion and winner of an Olympic Light-heavyweight gold medal. In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century"
by Sports Illustrated and the BBC.
Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was named after his father, Cassius
Marcellus Clay Sr., who was named for the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Clay. Ali changed his name after
joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, subsequently converted to Sunni Islam in 1975 and then Sufism Ali was best known
for his fighting style which he described as "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee". His movement is often described
as a dance; some go so far as to call it beautiful.

During his career Ali made a name
for himself with great hand speed, as well as fast feet and taunting tactics. While Ali was renowned for his fast, sharp out-fighting
tye, he also had a great chin, and displayed a great heart and ability to take a punch in his 1974 fight against George Foreman
in Zaire, called the Rumble in the .
Muhammad Ali is
a mere mortal. But in the eyes of millions he is a legend, immortalised forever by the energy and incredible talent he brought
in and out of the boxing ring. Muhammad Ali belongs to a generation of the history's best boxers, when there were a dozen
top draws like George Foreman, Ken Norton, Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, and Floyd Patterson. Despite the greatness of his peers
though, Muhammad Ali stood apart as the greatest of all time.
Muhammad
Ali was first and foremost a great boxer that's what brought Ali to prominence. But he was also a champion of the Civil
Rights movement, and an involved activist who used his power and fame to push noble social change.

The Beatles Story
calls on friends worldwide to help create the first on-line, fully interactive encyclopedia devoted solely to The Beatles.
It is essential Beatles fans across the world help us build the encyclopedia to ensure the legacy of The Beatles can be shared for years to come.
MissDeal's pretty expansive 60's world ... Hippie postcards, games, music and more.

DM's
Beatles site
The Beatles Welcome to the site, which is completely devoted to the
Beatles, undoubtedly the most famous music band. Please use left menu to navigate through the site in order to access: Comprehensive UK and US discographies with album covers, additional information, reviews and comments.
Complete song index with the lyrics. Different takes, demo and live versions, unreleased
songs and songs for others. Detailed history day by day, with pictures, links to albums,
interviews. More than thousand pictures of the Beatles, people close to them, magazine
covers. Various information on the Beatles, their films, interviews, concerts, bootlegs.
Popular discussion forum where you can meet Beatles fans from all over the World.

One of the most
exciting and influential groups to come out of Birmingham in the early 1960s, the Spencer Davis Group is recognized for their
classic and ground-breaking recordings as well as for launching Steve Winwood's music career.
Spencer Davis was
born on July 17, 1941 in Swansea, South Wales. He moved to London as a teenager where he played in skiffle bands and became
heavily influenced by imported American blues music. In 1960 he relocated to Birmingham and studied German at Birmingham University
before working as a teacher at Whittington Oval Junior School in Yardley. In the evenings, he would play his 12 string guitar
and sing blues at various venues in the city and for a short time formed a duo with future Fleetwood Mac member Christine
Perfect.

Welcome the hardest
working pop history, pop culture, trivia and time machine on the planet. Look back week-by-week and rediscover old friends,
wonderful trivia and those things you just forgot. If you weren't around, you;ll be fascinated by this virtual time travel.
Browse the week-by-week sections in each decade. Be sure to come back each week as the site expands, or get entertained in
the Ask Mr. Pop History section the Ann Landers of pop culture.Q&As added every week or browse hundreds of past Q&As.
Don't be afraid to ask a question.

"This
site is best viewed with a Bacon Sandwich and a Mug Of Tea"
One of the most popular toys for young American girls
during the last several decades has been the Barbie doll, which debuted by the Mattel company in 1959 at the New York Toy
Fair. The first Barbies were slim but shapely, eleven and a half inches tall, and sold for $3.00. Girls could not only collect
the dolls but a whole range of fashions ("authentic in every detail," her makers proudly proclaimed) for the Barbie
to wear. Although the earliest dolls had dead white skin and limp hair, by the early 1960s her skin tone was more natural
and her designers were giving her a variety of hair-styles, especially the beehives and bubble cuts that were popular at the
time. Barbie's ever-changing wardrobe also reflected the fashions of the time, from the elegance of first lady Jacqueline
Kennedy to the short-skirted "Carnaby Street" look imported along with the British Invasion of 1964. Like every
popular teenager, Barbie soon had a circle of friends for girls to collect, as well. Her boyfriend Ken was introduced in 1961.
(Barbie and Ken made it official in 1965, when Mattel offered a wedding ensemble for the two.) In 1963 Barbie gained a best
girlfriend, Midge. In 1964 and 1966 Barbie's makers offered siblings for her: first her little sister Skipper, and then
the twins Tutti and Todd. In 1966 the public was introduced to Francie, Barbie's mod cousin, and in 1968 Christie, a black
friend, was added to the group. There was, of course, plenty for all of Barbie's friends to wear, too: the designers at
Mattel added hundreds of new pieces to the group's wardrobe each year.
The Nostalgic Boomer
The Nostalgic
Boomer, a virtual nostalgia heaven for Baby Boomers. A place to relive and revive memories of the Innocent Fifties and
Turbulent Sixties. An era of Rock and Roll, Elvis, The Beat Generation, Hippies and The Beatles that belonged to the
post war baby boom of 1946 through 1964.
With movie audiences declining due to the dominance
of television, major American film companies began to diversify with other forms of entertainment: records, publishing, TV
movies and the production of TV series. For example: In July of 1961, TWA Airlines began the first regular in-flight movies
in first-class during a NYC to LA flight, with a Bell and Howell projector aimed at a screen to show the glossy soap opera
By Love Possessed (1961), starring Lana Turner, in September of 1961, Saturday Night at the Movies premiered on NBC
with the first wide-screen comedy, How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) - it marked the start of the trend to broadcast Hollywood
movies on TV, in 1965, Columbia released folk/rock singer Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited, separate awards for
Black and White and Color Cinematography were eliminated by AMPAS for 1967 (and after) films, because most films were being
made in colour, Increasingly in the 60s, the major studios financed and distributed independently-produced domestic pictures.
And made-for-TV movies became a regular feature of network programming by mid-decade. Many "runaway" film productions
were being made abroad to save money. By mid-decade, the average ticket price was less than a dollar, and the average film
budget was slightly over one and a half million dollars. And by the end of the decade, the film industry was very troubled
and depressed and experiencing an all-time low that had been developing for almost 25 years.
"Classic
Beach"
Artists and groups that were important to the formative years of this genre include: Artie Shaw,
Wynonie Harris, Jimmy Cavallo and The House Rockers, Ruth Brown, Little Willie John, Earl Bostic, The Drifters, Wilbert Harrison,
Clyde McPhatter, Billy Ward and The Dominos, Hank Ballard, Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs, The Tams, The 5 Royales, The
Coasters, Fats Domino, Jimmy McCracklin, Solomon Burke, Sam Cooke, The Platters, The Four Tops, Louis Prima, Arthur Alexander,
Stick McGhee, Jackie Brenston, Willbert Harrison, Big Joe Turner, Bruce Channel, Wilson Pickett, Clarence Carter, Dinah Washington,
Billy Stewart, The Temptations,The Impressions, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, The O'Jays, The Spinners,
Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Etta James, The Checkers, The Clovers, Barbara Lewis, Don Covay, Jimmy Ricks and The Ravens,
Mary Wells, Garnet Mimms and The Enchanters, Ben E. King, Major Lance, Willie Tee and Ernie K-Doe.
While some of the
"beach hits" by these artists appeared on the R&B and rock and roll charts nationally, a great many of them
were "b-sides" -- or even more obscure recordings that never charted at all. With this penchant for obscure R&B,
especially from the sixties, beach music has much in common with the northern soul phenomenon in the UK.


So, what does
that say about our Eternally Cute and Favorite Monkee? It says that he has fans that care enough about him to take the time
to build little altars of appreciation for all the years he has given to us.....but there is more to this site than our Darling
David....

Have your
parents ever told you about the 1960's? If they have, was it boring, or about the least important thing? (Not that anything
boring happened in the 60's.) Well, don't worry, they're not the only people who know about that time period.
Even some of your fellow kids have some good info on the 60's. Like Jessica and Amy, the writers of this totally awesome
web page!!! Your parents might have told you that the 60's were all about hippies ... well, the 60's were more than
just hippies, although they did play an important role during the decade. There was also: Martin Luther King Jr.'s "
I have a dream" speech, psychedelic music, Kennedy's assassination, the Vietnam War, and the first man to walk the
moon. So hold on to your chairs, 'cause your about to go on a on a wild ride through time to the 1960's!!!!

The following
pages are devoted to special memories of Radio Caroline in the Sixties. If you have a particular memory of something that
happened while listening to Radio Caroline, or have unearthed some rare memorabilia, please click on the button, right, and
let us know!

Your trusted guide to the decade of short skirts and flower power.
Flower power was a slogan used by hippies
(aka Flower Children) during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of non-violence ideology. It is rooted in opposition
to the Vietnam War. They burned their draft cards and created a hippy culture. They dressed in flowery clothing and wore
flowers in their hair. The expression is said to have been coined by the US poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965. It has since been
used in many places when referring to the sixties, including countless films, TV programs and documentaries. The "meeting
place" for the Flower Power movement was based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in a club called Paradiso. The hippies
chose this club because of the name paradiso, which reminded them of a peaceful place, paradise. Artists such as Yoko Ono
have since been performing there on occasional visits. Nowadays it is found next to a Hard Rock Cafe and is a centre of
music for all groups of people, including followers of movements such as the Rastafari movement. Flower Power also celebrated
symbolic action such as giving flowers to policemen and putting flowers into the barrels of ROTC rifles. A Pulitzer-nominated
photograph (with the same title) by Washington Star photographer Bernie Boston has been a classic image of the Vietnam War
era protests. The photo, taken at the October 21, 1967, "March on the Pentagon", showed a young, long-haired man
in a turtleneck sweater, placing carnations into the rifle barrels of military policemen. The young man turned out to be
George Edgerly Harris III, an 18 year old actor from New York. Harris later took on the stage name of "Hibiscus".
Trippervision a video experience consisting of nonstop, imaginative, and beautiful consciousness-expanding psychedelic visuals.

The Baby
Boomer Generation is a source for trends, research, comment and discussion of and by people born from 1946 - 1964. Covering
issues on the Boomer Generation including original content for Boomers, bulletin boards, user comments, Sixties and Seventies
music, Baby Boomer culture, health and coverage of issues for "Ageing Hipsters."

Rediscover your
favourite songs from the sixties and early seventies. Find those long-lost tunes you thought you had long forgotten. We maintain
a searchable database of links to sound clips for over 4000 songs from 1960-1975 which can be browsed both by performing artist
and by song title.

I believe that
The Small Faces are one of the greatest bands to come out of the sixties (not counting the Beatles) and I feel that there
are not enough websites around about them, so I have decided to make this one. I have tried to include everything that a Small
Faces fan would look for, things like pictures of the band, wallpapers and also lyrics, as well as a number of links to other
cool Small Faces fan sites.

The sixties were
a time of change, counter culture and political movements. Many young people involved themselves in trying to make America
a better place for all people, no matter what gender or race they were. The sixties began with the election of America's
youngest president, John F. Kennedy. During his period in office people stepped out and said how they felt. They thought that
with Kennedy leading America, anything was possible.

The 1960s brought us hippies, the Civil Rights Movement,
the British Invasion and so much more. The decade also brought us a whole new lingo that was used by everyone. Below is a
small list of the slang used in the 1960s. Some are still commonly used today, while others are not and some are just clearly
dated but we love them anyway.
Slang Still Commonly Used Today
Crash: to go to sleep or be worn out. "After
protesting on Washington all day, I crashed on my couch."
Dibs: to own or possess something. "I've got
dibs on that tie dye shirt."
Jinx, you owe me a soda: shouted out after two people say the exact same thing at the
exact same time.
Old Lady: refers to your own or someone's mother. "My old lady is in love with Breakfast at
Tiffany's."
Peace Out: a way of saying goodbye. "I'm heading to San Francisco for the Summer of Love,
peace out."
Scarf: to eat quickly. "I'm so hungry, I'm going to scarf down a whole pie."
Slang Still Used Today but Dated by the 1960s
Boogie: to leave. "This party is lame, let's boogie." It
can also mean to dance. "I want to boogie down to Motown tonight."
Dig: to understand. "Can you dig what
I'm saying?"
Far Out: something that is cool and exciting. "Neil Armstrong landing on the moon is far out."
Funky: something that is great and unique. "Sonny and Cher's new song is funky." It can also mean something
is rotten. "Your flip flops smell funky."
Groovy: also means something is cool or great. "Elvis Presley
is a groovy guy."
Hang Loose: to relax. "Let's hang loose at your old lady's pad tonight."
Slang Not Commonly Used Today
Blitzed: to be drunk. "I got blitzed at Woodstock this summer."
Dude:
a nerd or geek, different than how we use it today. "That dude from math class lost his pocket protector."
Gas:
to have fun. "I had a real gas at the Beetles concert last night."
Gutt Waddin': fast food or a quick snack
to fulfill your hunger. "Let's grab some gutt waddin' before we head to the drive-in theater."
Hook:
to steal. "He hooked that Mustang from his old man."
Panty Waist: another term for a nerd or a mama's boy.
"That Panty Waist is too scared to see Psycho."
The Protest song
was one of the main symbols of the sixties youth culture and
was aimed at awakening public awareness of social issues, particularly the Vietnam conflict. The songs provided the soundtrack
to our demonstrations against that War and All war.
WAR
War has shattered
Many young men's dreams
We've
got no place for it today
They say we must
fight to keep our freedom
But Lord, there's
just got to be a better way
It ain't
nothing but a heartbreaker
War !
What is it good for?
("War", by Edwin Starr was the United States number 1 song in 1970.)
The Bands and Artists We Loved

You have entered a part of my website that is near and dear to me, --the era of my youth... Come back
to the day before cell phones, pagers**, CD's, email or the internet, how'd we ever survive? Well, somehow we did manage to survive and we obviously didn't need those things that today we feel we can't
live without. If it were at all possible, I am quite sure that the majority of
us that came out of the 70's --would gladly jump into a time machine and transport back into time...
An A-Z of British bands and songwriters of the sixties.
The sixties were the age of youth,
as 70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults. The movement away from the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in revolutionary
ways of thinking and real change in the cultural fabric of American life. No longer content to be images of the generation
ahead of them, young people wanted change. The changes affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment.
Many of the revolutionary ideas which began in the sixties are continuing to evolve today.

It was 5.30pm
on Sunday 15th February 1970 when Catweazle dropped in from 1066 with the very first episode 'The Sun In A Bottle'.
Two years of sheer magic followed, but he waved us goodbye on Sunday 4th April 1972 in Episode 26, 'The Thirteenth Sign'.
That was the last we saw of him on UK television, apart from the repeats on Sky Television! he was gone but not forgotten............
The beginning
of Rock and roll started with The Twist. by Chubby Checker This song changed our dancing moves. Other dance songs that helped
this period of rock and roll along include: The Mash Potato, The Monster Mash ,the Pony, The Swim, The Jerk, The Monkey, and
The Hully Gully. The first New York white rock star was Dion. He was the lead singer of the band the Belmonts. He was one
of the the few rockers in his generation to evidence serious artistic growth (Unterberger). He moved into Country Blues, and
Dylan material with sensitivity ,but drug problems slowed his progress until the late 60s. He made a comeback as a folk-rock
singer with his song Abraham ,martin and John. Dion was one of several Italian-Americans to make important pop rock in the
60s. Other big American Rock groups of the 60s include: The Beach Boys, the four Seasons, and Frankie Valli. They had songs
which included Sherry, Walk like a man, Candy Girl, Dawn, and Rag doll. Joey Dee was the most popular white twist artist of
the 60s with his hit Peppermint Twist. Other members of Joey Dees band formed another Band called the Nucleus of the rascals.
This band Featured a thick Organ sound of Felix cavaliere,They had a number one hit titled Good Lovin in 1966.

The beginning
of Rock and roll started with The Twist by Chubby Checker This song changed our dancing moves. Other dance songs that helped
this period of rock and roll along include: The Mash Potato, The Monster Mash ,the Pony, The Swim, The Jerk, The Monkey, and
The Hully Gully. The first New York white rock star was Dion. He was the lead singer of the band the Belmonts. He was one
of the the few rockers in his generation to evidence serious artistic growth (Unterberger). He moved into Country Blues, and
Dylan material with sensitivity ,but drug problems slowed his progress until the late 60s. He made a comeback as a folk-rock
singer with his song Abraham ,martin and John. Dion was one of several Italian-Americans to make important pop rock in the
60s. Other big American Rock groups of the 60s include: The Beach Boys, the four Seasons, and Frankie Valli. They had songs
which included Sherry, Walk like a man, Candy Girl, Dawn, and Rag doll. Joey Dee was the most popular white twist artist of
the 60s with his hit Peppermint Twist. Other members of Joey Dees band formed another Band called the Nucleus of the rascals.
This band Featured a thick Organ sound of Felix cavaliere,They had a number one hit titled Good Lovin in 1966.

The Cultural Sixties began with the assassination of
John F Kennedy in 1963. The Beatles invaded in 1964 changing our music and our culture. Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad
Ali and became the athlete of the century. The Rolling Stones hit big with Satisfaction in 1965. Bob Dylan turned on the
Beatles who began putting more thought into both their music and lyrics giving rise to what is said to be the greatest
studio album of all time, Sargent Peppers Lonely Heartclub Band. In 1966 the war in Vietnam was building into
a political problem on the homefront and we first heard of the hippies and the music which was to define the decade. In 1967
Israel won the 6 Day War in the Middle East, Senator Eugene McCarthy entered the race for President giving the struggling
peace movement momentum. In 1968 Lyndon Johnson refused to run again for President, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy
were assassinated and the Vietnam war escalated. 1968 also had Americans orbiting the moon while riots dominated the Democratic
Convention in Chicago. In 1969 Richard Nixon became President, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked
on the Moon, Jimi Hendricks played Woodstock and bikers killed a fan at a free Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway
and Easy Rider with Jack Nicholson became a hit. In 1970 the United States began B-52 bombing of Cambodia, in protest
four students were shot by the National Guard at Kent State Univeristy. 1970 was also the year the Beatles
broke up and Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died in drug-related deaths. In 1972 came All in the Family with Archie Bunker.
and in 1974 Richard Nixon resigned and The Sixties ended with President Gerald Ford's words, "Our
long national nightmare is over."
Frank Robinson
(born August 31, 1935 in Beaumont, Texas), is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball player. He was an outfielder, most
notably with the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore Orioles. During a 21-season career, he is the only player to win League
MVP honors in both the National and American Leagues, won the Triple crown, was a member of two teams that won the World Series
(the 1966 and 1970 Baltimore Orioles), and amassed the fourth-most career home runs at the time of his retirement (he is currently
seventh).

During the last
two years of his playing career, he served as the first permanent African-American manager in Major League history, managing
the Cleveland Indians to a 186-189 record. He went on to manage the San Francisco Giants, the Baltimore Orioles, the Montreal
Expos and the Washington Nationals.

1960s hits UK A
1 Michael Holliday - "Starry Eyed"
January 29 for 1 week
2 Anthony Newley - "Why"
February 5 for 4 weeks
3 Adam Faith - "Poor Me"
March 4 for 2 week
4 Johnny Preston
- "Running Bear"
March 17 for 2 weeks
5 Lonnie Donegan - "My Old Man's a Dustman (Ballad
of a Refuse Disposal Officer)"
March 31 for 4 weeks
6 Anthony Newley - "Do You Mind"
April 28 for 1 week
7 Everly Brothers - "Cathy's Clown"
May 5 for 7 weeks
8 Eddie Cochran
- "Three Steps to Heaven"
June 23 for 2 weeks
9 Jimmy Jones - "Good Timin'"
July 7 for 3 weeks
10 Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "Please Don't Tease"
July 28 for 1
week
11 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - "Shakin' All Over"
August 4 for 1 week
12 Cliff
Richard & The Shadows - "Please Don't Tease"
August 11 for 2 weeks
13 The Shadows - "Apache"
August 25 for 5 weeks
14 Ricky Valance - "Tell Laura I Love Her"
September 29 for 3 weeks
15 Roy Orbison - "Only the Lonely (Know How I Feel)"
October 20 for 2 weeks
16 Elvis Presley
- "It's Now or Never"
November 3 for 8 weeks
17 Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "I Love
You"
December 29 for 2 weeks
1969 Woodstock Festival & Concert

A collection
of Woodstock Facts, Figures, Stories, Photos, Current Happenings, Memorabilia, Links, and Assorted Tit bits. Assembled to
give you a clearer picture of an event that reshaped Music and Society. Join us for a trip to the 1969 Woodstock Festival
& Concert!!
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Originally, hippies
were part of a youth movement composed mostly of white teenagers and young adults, between the ages of 15 and 25 years old,
who inherited a tradition of cultural dissent from the earlier Bohemians and the beatniks.Hippies rejected established institutions,
criticized middle class values, opposed nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Eastern philosophy,championed
sexual liberation, were often vegetarian and eco-friendly, promoted the use of psychedelic drugs to expand one's consciousness,
and created intentional communities or communes. They used alternative arts, street theatre, folk music, and psychedelic rock
as a part of their lifestyle and as a way of expressing their feelings, their protests and their vision of the world and life.
Hippies opposed political and social orthodoxy, choosing a gentle and nondoctrinaire ideology that favored peace, love and
personal freedom,perhaps best epitomized by The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love". They perceived the dominant
culture as a corrupt, monolithic entity that exercised undue power over their lives, calling this culture "The Establishment",
"Big Brother", or "The Man". Noting that they were "seekers of meaning and value", scholars
like Timothy Miller describe hippies as a new religious movement.
The roots of
British popular music for the rest of the 20th century and into the next were set during the 1950s. In the aftermath of World
War 2, the economy was still performing poorly. Many consumer goods were not available, and there was little high-wage labor.
American media was popular, and the British youth grew infatuated with the apparent wealth of their American counterparts.
The economy of the United States was booming, and the images on TV made it appear as though American teens were able to purchase
much that the British could not. At the same time, a legion of American musical innovators, including Elvis Presley and Chuck
Berry, were adapting African American rock and roll for mainstream audiences, and American folk bands like The Weavers were
fomenting a roots revival of old time music. Indigenous styles of music production and performance dominated the United Kingdom
until the late 1950s, when imported American rock and roll, pop-folk and rockabilly gained fans among British youth, while
American roots music, especially the blues, found its own devoted fanbase. Joe Boyd brought the "Blues and Gospel Caravan"
to England in April 1964 (including Muddy Waters and Otis Spann). He found the English audiences more enthusiastic than the
US ones (see ""White Bicycles" chapter 2). Many USA blues artists followed in their trail.

Welcome
to Sixties Photos, the website that brings you back to the sweet, swinging, psychedelic Sixties with photographs taken by
major photo-masters of the era. Among our incredible collection, we present Gene Anthony, a giant among men behind the camera
then and now whose photo archive of over 200 categories was assembled from assignments he completed over the years for Life
Magazine, Paris Match, Der Stern, Newseek, Playboy and other major publications.

The Vietnam War
was fought by the United States between 1965 to 1973. It was the longest war the country had ever engaged in. The Vietnam
War was unique in one other regard: It gave rise to the largest and most successful antiwar movement in United States history.
In a sense, the war in Vietnam could be described asacid.jpg (49166 bytes) a two front war - a war in Vietnam with war being
waged with tanks, guns and bullets - and a "war at home," fought on the streets and campuses throughout the nation.

From Twiggy to
James Bond, the Rat Pack to the Beatles, Janis to Jimi, the Supremes to Steve McQueen, the Swingin' Sixties' swinginest
guys and gals unite for a kooky (but respectful!) celebration of swingin' style in our new "encyclopedia" The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool.

From the 1920's
to 2000's we list all of the craziest fads that have come and gone. Go back a few decades and read about the silly to
serious fads that helped change our society and create a pop-culture. Want to know which fads your parents experienced? What
about the ones you experienced yourself? Maybe you will start a new fad yourself after reading some of the following crazy
fads.
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Pop music also set in motion a series
of dance crazes, starting with the twist in 1961. That dance was so popular that First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy even had
a twisting party at the White House. By the time the adults learned the steps of one dance, however, the teenagers had generally
moved on to another one. The frug, the watusi, the mashed potato, the pony, the swim, and the jerk all had their brief spells
of popularity on America's young dance fans.
Beatles
Brians drive in
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Welcome to Sixties Photos
The Spencer Davis Group
Eric Patrick
Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter
and composer. He is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries, garnering an unprecedented three
inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (The Yardbirds, Cream, and solo). Often viewed by critics and fans alike as
one of the greatest guitarists of all time, Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the "100
Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Although Clapton's
musical style has varied throughout his career, it has always remained rooted in the blues. Clapton is credited as an innovator
in several phases of his career, which have included blues-rock (with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and The Yardbirds)
and psychedelic rock (with Cream). Clapton has also achieved great chart success in genres ranging from Delta blues (Me and
Mr. Johnson) to pop ("Change the World") and reggae (Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff"). Clapton also
achieved fame with Derek and the Dominos through the hit song "Layla".
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The Six Day War occurred against the background of continuing
Arab world hostility to the State of Israel, which had begun with the War of Independence. In that war, the newly created
state of Israel had defeated the Arab armies that had invaded it, and expanded its territory. The war had created about 700,000
Palestinian Arab refugees, who fled or were expelled in 1948.
Officially, no Arab country recognized the armistice
lines of 1949 as international borders, and no Arab country recognized Israel, diplomatically. Israel, according to Arab rhetoric,
had no right to exist, and was referred to as "The Zionist entity." Defeating and destroying Israel and "reversing
the results of 1948" became central goals of Arab political rhetoric. Prestige and leadership of the Arab world were
based on leadership in confrontation of Israel.
Gamal Abdul Nasser and his fellow officers had taken power in Egypt,
in order they claimed, to modernize the country and undo the shame of the lost 1948 war. However, in 1956, after Nasser closed
the straits of Tiran and Suez canal to Israeli shipping and moved terror squads into the Sinai peninsula, Israel, Britain
and France attacked Egypt. Israel captured the entire Sinai peninsula in 100 hours. Before agreeing to withdraw, Israel got
an Aide de Memoire from the US that it would support Israel's right to unrestricted access to the straits of Tiran, in
accordance with international law, and the UN agreed to station an emergency force in Sinai (UNEF).
Nasser claimed
a "victory" in that he had gotten Israel, Britain and France to withdraw, but the UNEF and the free access of Israeli
shipping were a constant shameful reminder. Nasser bid to lead the Arab world, but his plans foundered in economic woes
and a failed war in Yemen, evoking inter-Arab rivalry. Constant taunts dared Nasser to dismiss the UNEF and close the straits
of Tiran.
Tension began developing between Israel and Arab countries in the 1960s. Israel began to implement its
National Water Carrier plan, which pumps water from the Sea of Galilee to irrigate south and central Israel. The project was
in accordance with a plan proposed by US envoy Eric Johnston in 1955, and agreed to by Arab engineers. Arab governments refused
to participate however, because of the implied recognition of Israel. In secret meetings, Israel and Jordan agreed to abide
by the water quotas set by the plan.
The newly formed Palestinian Fatah movement seized on the Israeli diversion
as an "imperialist event" that would catalyze their revolution, and Yasser Arafat began calling for war to eliminate
Israel. In the Fatah newspaper, Filistinunah, ("our Palestine") Arafat ridiculed Egyptian President Nasser and other
Arab leaders for their impotence, and called for effective action against Israel. Nasser decided to found the Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) as a "tame" alternative to the Fatah, and placed Ahmed Shukhairy, an ineffective and bombastic
diplomat at its head.
The Syrians, who had broken with Nasser's pan-Arabism, countered by supporting Fatah
and attempted to take over the Fatah group. Syrian army intelligence recruited terrorists for actions against Israel,
giving credit for the operations to Fatah. The first of these actions was announced on December 31, 1964, an attack on the
Israel water carrier at Beit Netopha, but in fact no attack had taken place. A second attempt was made on January 2, 1965,
but the explosives charge was disarmed. However, successful attacks soon followed on January 14 and February 28. In the 18
months preceding the war, there ware 120 terror attacks, resulting in 11 fatalities. These minor terrorist activities
received great publicity in the Arab world, and were contrasted with the lack of action and bombastic talk of Gamal Nasser,
challenging Nasser's leadership. This ferment is considered the catalyst of the events that brought about the Six day
war. It is a moot point whether it is to be attributed to Syrian rivalry with Nasser, or as Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians
claim, to the Fatah movement. Faced with the "heroic" deeds of the Palestinians under Syrian tutelage, Nasser was
pushed to an increasingly bellicose stance.
Uncle Mac's
The Chevrolet Corvette was becoming a veteran sports
car when the 1960s began, and thus was prominently featured in the new, popular television series, "Route 66,"
in which it whisked young actors Martin Milner and George Maharis across the country in search of adventure.The 1960 Corvette
was described in a sales catalogue as being "elegant on the boulevard and eager on the road." But the two-seat
convertible didn't really take off until a few years after its 1953 introduction. It was almost killed in 1955, when
only 674 were sold, compared with 16,155 Thunderbirds.

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With its "Love-Ins," "Be-ins,"
and "Flower Power," came to be known as "The Summer of Love," and was one of the seminal moments of our
generation. Over thirty years later, we who came of age during the turbulent decade of the sixties are dismayed to realize
that, to the young adults of today, those years are now ancient history.

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While the first contemporary musicians
to be influenced by psychedelic drugs were in the jazz and folk scenes, the first use of the term "psychedelic"
in popular music was by the "acid-folk" group The Holy Modal Rounders in 1964, with the song "Hesitation Blues."
The first use of the term "psychedelic rock" was on the 13th Floor Elevators' business card , designed by
John Cleveland, and circulated in December 1965. The term was first used in print in the Austin Statesman in an article
about the band titled "Unique Elevators shine with Psychedelic Rock" , dated 10th February 1966.
In 1962, British rock
embarked on a frenetic race of ideas that spread back to the U.S. with the British Invasion. The folk music scene also experimented
with outside influences. In the tradition of Jazz and blues many musicians began to take drugs and included drug references
in their songs. Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and especially the new exponents
of consciousness expansion such as Timothy Leary, Alan Watts and Aldous Huxley profoundly influenced the thinking of the
new generation. In late 1965, The Beatles unveiled their brand of psychedelia on the Rubber Soul album, which featured John
Lennon's first paean to universal love ("The Word") and a sitar-laden tale of attempted hippy hedonism ("Norwegian
Wood", written by John Lennon). Jeff Beck claimed that British rock act The Yardbirds were "the very first psychedelic
band really" releasing singles: "Shapes of Things", "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Happenings
Ten Years Time Ago" in 1966.
No amount of
rationalization or blaming can pre-empt the moment of choice each of us brings to our situation here on this planet. The lesson
of the 60's is that people who cared enough to do right could change history.

During the sixties,
as people were trying to find new ways to explore pleasure and ways of bringing it about, marijuana became an obvious choice.
Despite the fact that it was illegal, many people were willing to try this amazing substance. Marijuana is a weed, hence the
nickname "weed", and as such, is currently native to all continents on the planet but Antarctica; and who knows,
a researcher down there might be doing a few "hydroponic" experiments. Although marijuana is not a mind altering
drug like a psychedelic, it was also eagerly sought out for a good "buzz". marijuana has been very popular in recent
history, and every since the 1960s, has been a common part of our society as a whole.
Adrian The Ageing Hippy

"When I'm
Sixty-Four" is a love song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney (but co-credited to John Lennon) and released in
1967 on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It is sung by a young man to his lover, and is about his plans
of growing old together with her. Although the theme is about ageing, it was one of the first songs McCartney wrote, when
he was sixteen.The Beatles used it in the early days as a song they could play when the amplifiers broke down or the electricity
went off.
The 1960s were
marked by several notable assassinations, including Kennedy's assassination in 1963, and Malcolm X in 1965, Martin Luther
King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.
First Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Patrice Lumumba,
is assassinated by Belgian/Congolese firing squad on January 17, 1961
First South Vietnamese president Ngo Dihn Diem
(Ngô Ðìhn Dim) is assassinated in coup d'etat on November 2, 1963.
US President John F. Kennedy
is assassinated on November 22, 1963 in his car during a parade
Malcolm X is assassinated on February 21, 1965
The
assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968.
The assassination of presidential candidate
Senator Robert F. Kennedy on June 6, 1968.
Anti-War Movement
A mass movement began rising in opposition to the
Vietnam War, ending in the massive Moratorium protests in 1969, and also the movement of resistance to conscription (the Draft)
for the war. The antiwar movement was initially based on the older 1950s Peace movement heavily influenced by the American
Communist Party, but by the mid-1960s it outgrew this and became a broad-based mass movement centered on the universities
and churches: one kind of protest was called a "sit-in." Other terms included the Draft, draft dodger, conscientious
objector, and Vietnam vet. Voter age-limits were challenged by the phrase: "If you're old enough to die for your
country, you're old enough to vote."
Hundreds
of full-length films were produced during the 1960s.
The decade is known for
being prominent in historical drama, psychological horror, and comedy, as well as the sub-genres of spy film, sword and sandal,
and spaghetti westerns, all peaking during this decade.
Historical drama films
continued to include epics, in the style of Ben-Hur from 1959, with Cleopatra (1963), but also evolving with 20th-century
settings, such as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).
Psychological horror films extended, beyond the stereotypical monster movies of Dracula/Frankenstein or Wolfman,
to include more twisted films, such as Psycho (1960) and Roger Corman's Poe adaptations for American International Pictures
as well as British companies Hammer Horror and Amicus Productions.
Comedy films became more elaborate,
such as the The Pink Panther (1963), The President's Analyst (1967), or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
(1966). Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) elevated the concept of a comedy-drama, where the subtle comedy conceals the harsher
elements of the drama beneath, and Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove (1962) set a new standard for satire by turning a
story about nuclear holocaust into a sophisticated black comedy.
Beyond the trenchcoat
and film noir, spy films expanded with worldly settings and hi-tech gadgets, such as the James Bond films Dr. No (1962) or
Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).
Similar to spy films, the heist or caper-films included worldly
settings and hi-tech gadgets, as in the original Ocean's Eleven (1960), Topkapi (1964) or The Thomas Crown Affair (1968
film).
The spaghetti westerns (made in Italy or perhaps Spain), were typified by
Clint Eastwood movies, such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) or Hang 'Em High (1968); however, several dashing
Italian actors had their own series of such westerns.
Science-fiction or fantasy films employed a wider range of special effects, as in the
original of The Time Machine (1960) and Mysterious Island (1961), or with animated aliens or mythical creatures, as in the
Harryhausen animation for Jason and the Argonauts (1963). Some extensive sets were built to simulate alien worlds or zero-gravity
chambers, as in space-station and spaceship sets for the epic 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the psychedelic, space settings
for the erotic Barbarella (1968), and with ape-city in the original Planet of the Apes.
Late in the evening of September 30, 1919, black sharecroppers were holding a union meeting in a
church in Hoop Spur outside of Elaine, Arkansas. Tensions were high and they had posted guards at the door. When two deputized
white men and a black trustee pulled into view, shots rang out. Who fired first is still debated, likely unknowable, and perhaps
not that important. What is important is what transpired afterwards. One of the white men was killed, the other wounded. The
black trustee raced back to Helena, the county seat of Phillips County, and alerted officials. A posse was dispatched and
within a few hours hundreds of white men, many of them the "low down" variety, began to comb the area for blacks
they believed were launching an insurrection. In the end, five white men and over a hundred African Americans were killed.
Some estimates of the black death toll range in the hundreds. Allegations surfaced that the white posse and even U.S. soldiers
who were brought in to put down the so called "rebellion" had massacred defenseless black men, women and children.
Nearly a hundred blacks were arrested, and in sham trials that lasted no more than a few minutes each, sixty-something black
men were sentenced to prison, and twelve were slated for execution. A massive effort on the part of the NAACP and others,
including a prominent black attorney in Little Rock, ensued, and by 1925 all the men were free. But planters had established
that blacks had best not organize, even within the law, for racism would bring whites of different classes together to put
them down.