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Rob Keit - Morecambe, Lancs (n North East London)
I grew up during the sixties in my birthplace Walthamstow,London E.17. I was eight years old in 1965 but grew up fast having four older sisters who each had there likes and lifestyles but were all very keen on the music and trends that were happening at that time. I was only one step behind them, always playing their records, wanting to be wherever they were and listening to the radio with them. My biggest memory sneaking down to the Cooks Ferry Inn at Edmonton to sit outside and listen to the bands that were playing there , knowing that my sisters were in there having a great old time and I couldn't. Used to hear Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band and Georgie Fame play there regularly. The Motown and Soul nights they had there sounded pretty awsome too, I think that is why Motown/Stax soul is still my favourite music.I couldn't quite handle the pirate stations being closed down though...Radio Luxembourg, could never match the shear brilliance of Radio London.

john newcastle upon tyne
the memories of the 60s, for me a big night out in newcastle's majestic with a superb line up including the small faces, kinks and the move. my mate trevor and i were just blown away by the small faces and the voice and stage presence of steve mariot.

Paul Stanley, Stafford
When Elvis Presley exploded onto the scene in 1956, it had a profound affect on me and I became a huge fan. I was only nine, but I was influenced by my elder brother, who was buying all the new records. I joined his fan club and filled my bedroom walls with his pictures. But in 1962, having seen ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ at the cinema, I realised that I’d been kidding myself for a long time. Since he’d come out of the army, the songs and films had got increasingly dire and I finally had to admit that I couldn’t go on being a fan. Even his comeback in 1969 was a letdown. Why, oh why did he don those ridiculous jumpsuits and, with so much stuff of his own, have to sing covers of other people. What he should have done was go on the road with a backing band of the ‘Creedence Clearwater Revival’ ilk, in a pair of Levis, and rocked! Instead of trying to follow a similar path to Tom Jones, he should have gone on the same sort of route that Bruce Springsteen was embarking on. If he’d listened to me (mind you, getting to actually tell him may have proved a bit difficult) instead of Colonel Tom Parker, he may not have got so wealthy, but his legacy would have been lot better for posterity!

Fred Ward
My memories is of playing on the first every Pop festival alongside Cream Pink Floyd Geno Washington and Jimi Hendrix Drummer Fred Ward

jamiewatters1@btinternet.com
Being born in 1969 all I can say is Man on Moon & Concorde. Never to be forgotten!

graham verrall
i remember watching david frost on a sunday night in 1968 on telly, and on came the beatles playing HEY JUDE it was fantastic. That november the beatles WHITE album came out i got a copy the day of release, it still remains my favorite album of all time.

Bruce
I remember hot summer nights in Nottingham,the smell of flowers in the city soul music at the Beechcomer seeing Tina Turner & thinking that's what sex is about,drinking warm beer at the Imperial listening to Scott McKenzy and finding the love of my life on a boring night at our local trendy pub where we'd gone after an unexpected rugby win and the celerations that went with it.And knowing that we were going to change the world and take our bit of time in the sun from them who were keeping it to themselves-

Alan Messer / currently living in Nashville
I started work in 1967 at 16 in London, photographing pop stars. My first pop magazine cover was Manfred Mann, the second The Beatles (Feb 1968). Amongst many, I also photographed; The Rolling Stones, The Doors, T.Rex, Rod Stewart, The Kinks, Diana Ross, Lulu, The Carpenters, The Who, Elton John. Was resident photographer at BBC for Simon Dee's "Dee Time". I was a trendy teen, dressed in a bottle green velvet suit from Take 6. Had clothes hand made at Carnaby Cavern by Colin, my hair cut by Denny at Sweeney's in Knightsbridge. My shirts were frilly or Nero style with a round collar.The swinging sixties were amazing, fast and productive. I was a teenager from Margate with a camera and a pass to every cool happening fab gear music event. I am still a photographer.

David Watson, Aiguillon France (n London then)
Music and colour... Music I still play now - LPs turned to CDs. Brubeck's new rhythms. My own Dansette. Radio Luxembourg under the bed covers late at night. Making ties out of fabric off-cuts. Man on the moon and waiting all night to see it happen. Kennedy. Martin Luther King. All nighters at LSE when I was at college at Trent Park. And meeting my wife there - married in 67 and celebrating 40 years next week!

Ray Romford now living in Chelmsford
Goose Pimples are forming on my arms just thinking about the 1960's I was 13 in 67 the group the NICE later to become ELP were playing at our Local Youth Club and a very young Noel Edmonds was the DJ, Zoot Money played at our School amongst many other acts before they found fame. Most Saturdays I would get the Train into London and just walk around Carnaby Street to soak up the atmosphere. The Prisoner was unmissable every Sunday Night on TV as was Johnny Walkers nightly show on Radio Caroline. The date of August 14th 1967 will always be etched in my memory as the Marine Broadcasting Offences Bill came into Act at Midnight.

Pam Morton now living in France...
Without doubt the best and most productive time of my life! I lived in Chelsea and worked as a publicist for a chain of West End theatres, based at the Palace in Cambridge Circus. If I could re-live any time of my life, that would be it, over and over again!!

Paul Stanley, Stafford
I was a mod in the 60s and a huge fan of the soul singer, Otis Redding, and was very, very upset when he died in a plane crash on December the 10th, 1968. There used to be a programme on BBC television in those days called 24 hours, which was the equivalent of Newsnight, and the presenter was Cliff Michelmore. On the day of Otis’s death, it was the last item on the show, and they showed a small clip of him in action, doing his famous ‘Gotta, Gotta, Gotta’, at the climax of one of his songs. Well, Mr. Michelmore didn’t seem too impressed, and, with a disdainful look in his eye, said, in a blatantly mocking tone of voice, ‘Well, apparently that was the king of soul! It was bad enough having to put up with that kind of blinkered rubbish from my dad, never mind the TV as well! Thank goodness things are a bit more impartial these days.

Dave T. Gateshead.
I was 13 yrs old in January 1963 and remember Kenny Craddock coming into the music lessonat school and saying to us all, 'have you heard that new record Please Please Me by the Beatles? At that time we'd never heard of them the lasses being into Cliff Richard who we took the mick out of. After that everything changed, I bought a harmonica and me mate got a guitar and the lasses were into the Stones.

Terry corr Belfast
For me the 1960's didn't begin until 1967. Up until then it was the 50's yes you had the Beatles and things were starting to happen but it all looks grey and ordinary . I was 11 in 1967 and Irecall hearing my first Motown song 'Martha and the Vandelas -Honey Child. By no means their best but one thing leads to another and I was hooked and a life long passion begun. This was the year of flower power and it was truely fantastic to see the Gallaghers Factory girls wearing flowers in their hair or the trendy or "with it" boys in school would not fully knot their tie and attempt to strike a chic look similar to a cravat. It really was the summer of love and the music was fantastic...Itchycoo Park...Flowers in the rain...Wheels on fire etc etc. little did we know here in Belfast that two years later we would be swallowed up in violence for another 40 years. The 3 years 67'68 and 69 which for me are the only truely FAB years that make up the 60's are the ones that sum it all up ... 1967 it all stared here.

George Brown, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
I was born in 1954. My parents always used to play rock'n'roll 78s, so my introduction to some fine music was through them. I do recall a teacher at my primary school called Valerie Oldroyd. She used to invite us to bring records in from home to play on the school Dansette. She'd bring her discs in too and play us some essential listening. So, pre-national curriculum listening pleasure included; Peter & the Wolf; Tubby The Tuba; The Planet Suite plus... The Kinks; Who; Rolling Stones; Spencer Davis; Beatles. Miss Oldroyd, who looked just like Lulu, arranged a school trip to our local Odeon cinema to see The Stones, Hollies, Roy Orbison, Dave Berry and Goldie & the Gingerbreads! So much more interesting than the Natural History Museum! It was the most memorable experience from my youth and at such a great time in pop music history. Thank you Miss, wherever you may be!

Chris J in Rayleigh Essex
It was the age when you saved your pocket money up and bought a charting 45rpm single for 6/4d at the local Electrical Suppliers. In my case it was a shop called Stanwoods that had just two listening booths at the back of the shop. This ritual usually took place at the weekend. You played it to death(both sides) on a cheap Dansette imitation record player bought from the Co-op till your mother or father "hit the roof!!".

Paulette Lappin Liverpool
I was a child in the 60's I remember the really bad winter of 63. It was fun to watch all the mayhem on the TV . The Dockers strike in the 60's made an impact. However, more than anything else it was Abervan which colurs my memory of the 60's together with all the TV visual images plus sweets , the concept of sin and the parks.

Michael C. Morton, Portland, Oregon, USA
I grew up in California, but I was born in Warrington, near Liverpool, in 1953. I took local pride in seeing the Beatles become famous in the USA and the rest of the world. The music of the 60s was truly remarkable, and I am still listening to the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who, etc. The highlight of my young life was attending the last concert by the Beatles at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in August, 1966, when I was 13.

Mike Birrell, Stockport Cheshire
The Sixties well what a great time as far as music was concerned ''The Beatles'' ''Stones'', Peace and harmony all around and of course 1966 England winning the world cup, the 60's will always stay in my memories for the music!! Happy Day's

Roland, Dunstable
The most memorable event of the sixties for me has to be going along to that first free concert in Hyde Park, where Blind Faith made there debut.

Graham Litster Kettering Northants.
My Wife(Pam)and I, whilst living in Birkenhead Merseyside, saw "The Beatles" (just before LOVE ME DO reached number 17 in the national hit parade) and "Gerry and The Pacemakers",on the same bill,in a small Scout Hut (long since demolished.) This was located in Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside,and paid the princely sum of two shillings(Ten New Pence) each.P.S. Gerry had the best personality, by far.

Barbara S, Tamworth
I get so nostalgic when you mention the 60's. I was in my late teens/early twenties then and the music just got better and better after Elvis at the end of the 50's. We used to go in a crowd to our local Friday dance at the Tamworth Assembly Rooms and saw the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Freddie and the Dreamers. I still have the top bracket from the set of drums from Dave Berry and the Cruisers and I remember being frightened to death by the act of Screaming Lord Sutch. He put a lit coal brazier on the stage and was whipping up the flames with his long hair. He was so scary I had to leave the hall for a while, and even when I went back in I was scared to death he was going to come off the stage and amongst the audience. We should be eternally grateful to Bill Haley and the Comets and to all the early Elvis stuff - That's Alright Mama, I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine, Lawdy, Miss Claudy.Wonderful sounds.

Helen Billsberry-Hawkins, West Sussex
Born in 1967 in Leeds I can really remember holding onto my mum's flares when we went shopping at the Asda and there been so much material to hide behind. I also remember it always being sunny - even in Leeds...

Jim Trace. Cardiff
I remember waiting in anticipation in the late 60's, for the "new" release from Zeger & Evans....If I rmemeber correctly it was called - In the year 65/65.What ever happened to them??

Alan Coomes Lee Green London SE 12
My main memories were going to the Marquee Club in Wardour Street every Tuesday night seeing groups before they were famous such as Geno Washington,Spencer Davis,Cream,Manfred Mann,Cat Stevens and Pink Floyd whom I walked out halfway through the set because I thought the music was rubbish ( see I know how to spot a good group )I also went to the London Palladium for a Sunday afternoon concert which had the Fourmost ,Steampacket featuring Long John Baldry,the Moody Blues and topping the bill the Rolling Stones all for 7/6d,another place we used to go to see groups was Chiselhurst Caves in Kent all I can remember is coming out afterwards covered in chalk,this happened because the groups played so loud that the vibrations brought the chalk from the roof of the caves down on top of you.The pirate stations were my favourite things of the 60s,Radio London being my favourite and Dave Dennis being my favourite DJ,we also went on a caravan holiday every year to Leysdown and from the caravan window you could see the Radio Forts in the Thames Estuary which housed Radio City and Radio 390.Great and happy days beam me back Scottie.

Ed, Basingstoke
ah man i was born in 1991, i'm pretty much jealous of every singly one of you. But im still a hippy *thumbs up* high five's all around!

Cyril Young, Israel
The sixties was the time of my musical education which I gleaned from The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel.I went to see The Beatles at the Finsbury Park Empire on Dec 31st 1964 and still clearly remember the experience.(It was only 20 or so years later that I got to see S&G here in Israel.)Beeing a teenager, I felt that the world was my oyster and I had the power to change things, that the sixties was a decade of change which, looking back, it was.The music that came out of the sixties was the best - you still hear hits from then every day on the radio, and every one I hear brings back a memory of where I heard it or with whom.The best decade ever!

brian peacock Altrincham Cheshire
meeting this gorgeus girl in 1967 called Heather who is now my wife and is 60 on Saturday.

Jim C, Yorkshire
Just reading all the comments, born in the 60's so have some great memories, this lot brought a lump to my throat, thought I was the only one missing it so much.

samantha royle - manchester
my mum was born in the 60's and i have a real good vibe that she was, and maybe still is, a hippy!

Paul Stanley, Stafford
Way back in 1960, when I was 12, a few years before fashion would change and almost totally eradicate the sales of men’s hair cream, I can recall a particular trip I made with a bunch of mates, to the local swimming baths. On the wall of the changing room was a big black Brylcreem dispenser, which, in retrospect, was quite possibly a classic piece of Art Deco and would now be a bit of a collector’s item. The procedure was to deposit your penny in the slot, push in the knob, and receive a dollop of hair cream in your hand. Well, one of the lads put his penny in and instead of getting his blob of Brylcreem, due to a fault, the stuff would not stop coming out. With being a bunch of 12 year olds, the thought of getting something for free proved just too much for us, so we all plastered as much as we could, onto our heads. I can just see us now on the walk back home; we must have looked like a crowd of walking Mr. Whippy ice cream cornets!

Robert Fox, South Africa
I spent my 60s in Leeds and went to school with Paul & Barry Ryan, they lived in a big house in woodhouse with their mother Marion Ryan who was a big star at the time. Paul and Barry later became pop stars in their own right, Barry became the singer Paul the song writer, I have since met Dave Berry, Freddy from Freddy and the Dreamers, Milly (my boy lollipop} and I also worked for Jimmy Savilleat the mecca Locarno later The Spinning Disk.What struck me was that all these stars never let the fame go to their heads they are great people especially Jimmy with his big cigars even then.

Paul Stanley, Stafford
Back in 1963, when I was 16, I went to see Gene Vincent at the Borough Hall in Stafford. He was on top form, and I can also remember being absolutely stunned by his backing band, ‘The Outlaws’. Not surprising really, as I found out a few years later that the lead guitarist was Ritchie Blackmore!

Jane Pearson, Sleaford, Lincolnshire
I was bought up in the 60s. I remember my parents buying Cliff Richard's 'Bachelor Boy' and several Beatles' records to play on our small record player. I also recall going to the cinema to see 'Summer Holiday' and 'A Hard Day's Night'. I was only about 7 when I went to see the Beatles film and couldn't hear much because of all the screaming fans in the cinema!

Norman Cutting - Berkhamsted
From September 1962 to the summer of 1963 I was down in Harold Wood (Essex) and Easter 1963 the test transmissions of the 1st pirates started. It just got better and better.Sorry BEEP, it just ain't the same!

Paul Stanley, Stafford
From 1964 to 1966, a superb evening out in Stafford was ‘R&B Night’, every Thursday, at the BRC (British Reinforced Concrete) Sports and Social club. A few of the bands I saw there included John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (with Eric Clapton), the Steam Packet (with Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry and Julie Driscoll), the Spencer Davis Group (with a very, very young Stevie Winwood), the Graham Bond Organisation (with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker), Champion Jack Dupree, Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds, Elkie Brooks, Zoot Money, Wynder K. Frog and Jimmy James and the Vagabonds. The resident band was the Hipster Image, who’s lead singer and sax/mouth organ player was local Stafford lad, Colin Cooper, who would later go on to form the Climax Blues Band. I can also remember that when the performers were not playing, they would inevitably be in the bar, along with everyone else. I have vivid memories of jostling in the queue to get my pint, alongside the likes of Rod Stewart and Ginger Baker. Those were the days!

60s Music
I love the 60s music. That is what pop songs should be. i was a teenage during part of the 60s and I know most of the words. Keep promoting it!Jennifer Goldsmith, London

Mary, California
The 60's were great, being in my earley twenty's I had my first car,I went to Hollywood to see my favorite singer Dusty Springfield,as she was coming out of a radio station,I had my 8mm movie camera and one of the men with her took our movie.It's on DVD today.Love her music today.That year was '67.Seeing the Stones and Beatles come in a close second.

Paul Stanley, Stafford
I have an amusing memory of when I saw Manfred Mann in Stafford, back in 1965. They were playing a newly opened venue, called ‘The Top of the World Ballroom’, where the manager had some very strict rules. Males could not get in if they weren’t wearing a tie, had hair over their collar, or long sideburns. If anyone was caught chewing gum whilst on the dance floor they were asked to leave. When I showed up I was told that I wouldn’t be allowed admittance because my sideboards were too long. But, incredible as it may seem, they actually had someone on the door with a pair hair of clippers, so I had them shaved off, just to see the band. The irony is that if Manfred Mann hadn’t been the group playing the gig, they wouldn’t have got in!

John Cox Surrey
I was 15 in 1969 and managed to get to Hyde Park to see the Stones and Blind Faith. I will never forget the atmosphere of that event, it was unlike anything that I had attended before. I particularly remember seeing Mick Fleetwood in the crowd with a child on his shoulders. He or she probably had the best view of all of us!

Sue D London
Remember boys riding around on Labrettas or Vespas wearing the green Parka coats with fur hoods.Hanging around in large groups listening to Mowtown.Room at the Top at Ilford on Friday nights, The Royal at Tottenham, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Two tone mohair suits for the boys made by Terella/Trevira, mohair outfits for the girls, who would stand on the buses, even when there were seats available, so that the outfits didn't get creased.

Karl - Edinburgh
The 60's was a fanastic time especially for music, the birth of Motown and a whole new generation of groups and solo artists.Seeing your favourite artists live ons stage was a huge thrill especially when you were a teenager.Over the years I saw The Beatles, Cilla Black, Gene Pitney, Lulu, The Everly Brothers, Scott Walker, Kathy Kirby, Tom Jones and even travelled down south several times to see Dusty Springfield who was absolutely stunning onstage.Many of my favourite 60's stars I only got to see in recent years, people like Chris Farlowe, Alan Price, Paul Jones, Marty Wilde. Helen Shapiro, Wayne Fontana etc; they are all still fantastic andn Chris Farlowe's "Out Of Time" is still one of my all-time favourite records.So yes, many happy memories of the 1960's, we were all young and the sounds we heard on our transistor radios were all new and fresh with many of them still sounding great today.Dusty's first solo record "I Only Want To Be With You" is a classic example!

Mick Suggitt
Music changed with the help of the Beatles as everyone knows but I feel it was a big change away from the rock and roll culture with the birth of flower powerand MOTOWN.

Pete, Wirral
I remember in the 60s queing to go down the entrance steps of the Cavern (revereberating bass, disinfectant, Paddy the doorman) to see the Beatles and then nothing else until 1970. What happened?

Eric Lawton, St Helens.
Grew up in the 60s, only a kid but WOW. The music will never be bettered. Radio Caroline North.Good grief, I knew every DJ, all the schedules etc. Got literally thousands of hours of radio taped from the 60s. Is it just me, but did life seem more colourful and bright then. Walking through the town centre and seeing the loud, bright colours. As a 9 year old, I remember being wary of skinheads. I remember buying Strawberry fields forever and playing it over and over again. Getting the Hollies Greatest Hits for my 9th birthday, still got it. Its not looking at life through rose tinted glasses but life was SO much better then.

Paul Stanley, Stafford
Back in 1963, when I was 16, I went to see Gene Vincent at the Borough Hall in Stafford. He was on top form, and I can also remember being absolutely stunned by his backing band, ‘The Outlaws’. Not surprising really, as I found out a few years later that the lead guitarist was Ritchie Blackmore!

Tony Barnard Bradford
I remember going to see at the old Gaumont in Bradford, to see, all on the same bill, The Hollies, Dave Clark 5, The Mojos (and the bloke who sang Venus in Blue Jeans) I still recall reading NME and fiding out the tour dates & deciding "this is a must vist"

Sue Green(nee Barrett) West Yorkshire
My three friends and I went to see the Beatles LIVE at the Leeds Odeon. We were all 13 it is my biggest claim to "fame" -we saw them twice! The second time they were so popular people camped out for tickets. Our mum's wouldn't let us so they walked into Leeds with us at 3am and queued til the box office opened. My friends mum was all of 5feet but she fought off queue-jumpers with her formidable elbows!!!

John Bloomfield Stratford upon Avon
I was born and grew up in Liverpool getting American records from the ships that docked in Liverpool. We first heard the Blues and that just blow us away; by 1960 we had a skiffle group on every street cornerThe Cavern club was a jazz club and you could go and listen to some great playing, gradually groups began to appear, local boy’s trying to get the same sound as many others. The Silver Beatles where regulars and then they where gone, we never knew just what happened, anyway they weren’t that good we had much better to follow. Every lunch time I used to go to the Cavan and listen to whichever group was playing, so great and some dreadful. The word went round that a “new” group from Hamburg, Germany had been booked, this, for the Cavan was a real first, very exciting. Even when we read the name still nothing clicked until that is we saw them; they had dropped the silver and were now simply The Beatles a group we new well but their stile had changed; their hair was brushed forward, they had leather jackets and best of all they sounded much better, not great but much better. You could go to any Liverpool club and watch any number of groups all later to become famous

Alex - London
60's memories I was five my mother was dancing in the front garden wearing nothing but a daisy chain ( shes 76 now ) and would still do it !! My grand mother could not get me to understand than Tony Blackburn did NOT live in the radiogram in our house , even taking me to the BBC to prove her point .

william ckelly
bellbottom pants in blue was kewl in the 60s yuppers love ya and peace to all rockin roll

Ken Pitcher. Dover Kent.
The years between 1964-1968 I lived in a road called Crabble Hill in Dover. My neighbours kids who we played with went off for miles seeking adventure. It was truly a fab time. I was 4 in 64 so around the age of 6-7 I was always out. The earliest memory of music was Tom Jones Green Green grass of home, followed by Monday Monday by the Mama's and Papa's brought with the Tremilos, Silence is Golden. As a family, we owed our own home, but had little money, but I always said to my parents, despite the lack of money, I truly loved my time growing up in the sixties.....

Mick Vass, Vancouver,BC, Canada.
Amazing, amazing times. Mid sixties mod culture, then the "heady" late sixties hard rock, festivals,incredible atmosphere,dramatic culture change. London in the sixties was magic, a brilliant time to be a teenager, a truly remarkable and cherished period.

Juanjo Felipe ,Canary Islands
I was born in the sixties, sop i knew sixties music later. anyway I think it was the great age of music not only in UK, but in America. Very good bands that I enjoy listening almost everyday. People who lived that period are lucky!!

Kathy Thornett, Southampton
Great memories of the late sixties, going to see Chris Farlowe, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, Geno Washington and local band the Alan Bown Set at Southampton Guildhall and at other venues in the City. Then one evening a support act was introduced “Just arrived from the U S” and there he was “Jimi Hendrix” in the red military jacket on the Guildhall stage - closing the first half of the evening. He had just released “Hey Joe” and played All Along The Watchtower and others – “amazing” I will never forget the vibration through the arms of those old metal chairs as he began but soon everyone was on their feet and moving towards the stage. We all realised we were seeing something phenomenal……

Laurence Enfileld North London
I was nine years old in 1963 I saved up my pocket money to buy my first 45 record Baby I Love your by The Ronettes my older sister telling me about this new group called the Beatles. Going to my cousins house in South End and telling meabout Radion Caroline and Radio London. 1967 Hearing Whiter shade of pale on Big L for the first time and Sgt Pepper LP saddest moment 3pm August 14th 1967 as Radion London closed. 1968 seeing Jimmy Hendrix at the Royal Albert Hall 1969 seeing The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park. Yes I would not change growing up in 60's for anything.

Peter ... Tasmania Australia
Staying at my Aunts in the school holidays,being given an old army radio transciever andlistening to a BBC world service on it fadingin and out with that whoosing sound later known as flanging or phasing (way before Itchicoo Park)hearing comedy shows through uncomfortable headphones now I guess it wasHancocks Half Hour (as had Kenneth Williamsand Sid James on it){years later Tony Hancock was reduced to appearing at one of our agricultral shows poor man but thats another story} feeling special as I thought I was probably the only kid in town listening to it ..early introduction to blues music as there was a Blues Program on , oh yeahremember hearing the news (several years before)about the JFK assassination and rushingdown the garden to tell my father whilst askinghim "why did some one do that?" (still waitingfor an answer although my father has long gone)Remembering the days of hot summers when the back seat of the car was so hot ..almost too hot to sit on in shorts and the wonderful breeze after winding down the window of the car as we safely crawled along before seatbelts.. T'was good

Iain Hamilton, Stornoway
1963 aged 5 was my first memory of the music in 60's. We always seemed to have the radio on all the time and there was always an extra excitement when the Beatles were releasing a new single and also when the Stones did the same . Even at our young age we seemed to discriminate between the serious music like the Beatles\Stones\Who and other music, such as the Hollies, which we enjoyed but was always less cool.America was also sending over some great music - who can ever forget hearing "Pretty Woman" for the first time in '64 or Simon & Garfunkel or the great Motown music - all groovy! What a variety of great music we grew up with in the 60's although it has to be said some of us were at least 9 before we got into Dylan!!How many do I listen to know - just about all of them!Music is still great and I'm sure there will be a few of todays young artists arond in 40 years or so?And in '66 - well we all lived in a "Yellow Submarine"

Phil Laing, Wallington, surrey
The 60'S to me was discovering SOUL, Tamla Motown. what a force in 60's Music.Our own grown Beatles. They were the FAB 60's and still are today.

David Murray-Hill Sittingbourne Kent
The Dance Halls such as the Ilford Palais, Streatham Cats Whiskers. Then the Discos at Carnaby street & the Night clubs.The Drug taking to keep you awake all night. The Mohair Suits, The Mods & Rockers riots at Brighton & Hastings on the Bank holidays. The Beatles, the Stones, The Yard birds, Beach Boys, Manfred Man,Tamla Motown. The all night Parties & the Free Sex. I done it all and loved it, and i would not change a thing. If you did not live in the sixties you missed the best.

Ruth Cameron, orig Tobermory Isle of Mull, now Wes
Mum used to have the radio on all the time in our kitchen,so i just loved all the music that was around and to this day it is still my fav music the sounds of the 60's and Top of The Pops I was a teen in the 70's, loved the songs Penny Lane as a wee girl can remember the film that was on the telly(think it was actually on the news) of the Beatles on top of the roof of a building in London singing Get Back and then the next thing was they were breaking up sad!!! Juke Box Jury, Loved all the clothes Mary Quant, Biba,Love Beads Mini's remember on the news it was alway's on about Vietnam but never realising the impact it had there and the rest of the world,(too young to understand really ),we did have a black and white telly too only BBC1 and BBC2 though, Radio Luxembourg with Stewart Hendry and a voice so recognisable Fluff Alan Freeman on radio and telly ,watching Antony Hopkins filming his part in When Eight Bells Toll and getting his aughtograph, long sunny summers getting our feet covered in tar of the roads because it was melting with the heat!!!! so glad i was born when i was i saw most of the 60's!!!!!!!sometimes secretly wish i was a teen then.

Federico kimcreixell@hotmail.com
Es verdad que los años 60 fueron,los años de tranformación,de tantos derechos,luchados,reclamados para nuestra,actualidad..en todas las formas ,mùsica,y en ellas se aprovechaba,de una forma pacifica,decir,lo importante,que son liberalizar,las aptitudes que no encajaban con el modelo social,que iba evolucionando bravo años 1960ec

Marc Howard. Kingston upon Thames. Surrey.
I was at school during the sixties until 1971, but so many musical memories:-Cream or Hendrix. Clapton was God but how your mind changes later.Thinking you were 'groovy' liking the lesser chart sucesses. 'A Salty Dog' Procol Harum.'Dragonfly' Tornados 'The Spartans' Sounds Incorporated, and numerous others.First seeing the album covers of 'Electric Ladyland' and 'Blind Faith' at the local youth club.

Barry Doyle, Widnes
Watching the Beatles, Jerry & The Pacemakers, The Hollies, The Big Three and all the bands in the Cavern Club especially during the lunchtime in Liverppol. The music was brilliant and the atmosphere terrific - you just did not want to go back to work - we all worked in a printing office.RegardsBarry the Beatle.

Tom Wilkes, Monterey Pop art director in 1967
1967 Monterey Pop Festival"Music, Love and Flowers"Once upon a time there was a rebellion, a revolution against the status quo. The youth of America were sick and tired of the Viet Nam war, racism and the endless political whitewash in the media. Out of this anger and unrest came the world's first Pop Music Festival.The Monterey International Pop Festival was about music, flower children, and the celebration of life. The event was a protest manifesting in rock'n roll music, long hair, strange dress, drugs and free love. It was thrust in the face of what was then referred to as "The Establishment".The Monterey Pop Festival was the main event of 1967's "Summer of Love" and one of contemporary rock's defining moments. This peaceful revolution was expressed through a universal language of music, poetry, the graphic arts and new lifestyles. The lyrics of popular songs reflected the feelings of the movement. Monterey Pop was a gathering of the tribes to celebrate the dawn of a new age and bring about a positive change in existing politics, ideals and institutions. Tom WilkesArt Director, Monterey International Pop Festival 1967www.wilkesworks.com

Barry Terry Gravesend Kent
I remember the sixties being the time to see the birth of the groups, going to the Co-op Halls in iether Gravesend ,Dartford or the Assembly Halls in Tunbridge Wells, being near and able to see groups like the Stones, the Hollies, Chris Farlowe Long John Baldry Hermans Hermits John Mayall with Eric Clapton or Pete Green. Also being a MOD having an account with a fashionable mens outlet HARRY FENTONS five shillings a week to pay out for the mock cashmere tonic suit. Going to London to the Marquee Club to see the likes of Gorgie Fame and other blues groups.Drinking Toby ale and smoking Weights or Woodbines, oh dear the nostalga could go on. Were these really good days, well yes they were and Iam glad Ilived through them and all the things that happened through the sixties that I have been witness to. Radio Caroline and Johnny Walker for ever.

Jerry Neoh, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex
Standing beside a camera at Pinewood Studios watching The Beatles being filmed singing "Hey Jude".Abiding memories include:1. Girl beside me nearly fainted when George said "hello" to her.2. Paul playing the piano and singing "Tom Dooley" but the minute the clapper board sounded, he turned to the camera and broke into "Hey Jude, don't..." so nonchalantly. 3. It needed about 16 takes before John was happy with the result. Although it was Paul's song, I felt that John was the leader of the band.4. The orchestra was unusually seated by a wall, row upon row of them, totalling about 5 rows high.5. Yoko Ono sat by herself in a corner throughout the entire shoot.6. David Frost walked in, whispered something into the Director's ear and then looked into a camera and said "And now, The Beatles", and then walked off.7. There was a drunken old man who seemed to be a fan and friend of The Beatles (his suit was adorned with Beatlemania bric a brac) who constantly interrupted the shoot. John refused to have him thrown out much to the Director's chagrin.

Vince Neale, East Ham now Laguna Niguel, S. Califo
Seeing Bobby V on tour, getting Helen Shapiro's autograph.(she was sitting in the audience!) The wkday Light 'pop' shows w dance bands trying to recreate Spector's Wall of Sound'! Easy Beat & Sat Club (thanks Brian M) Jimmy saville on TeenTwenty Disk Club,Keynsham on Luxembourg. Jack Jackson's crazy & very clever show on Sat afternoons. Discovering Radio London while working at Butlin's Clacton Xmas 64. The sheer delight of hearing the real records all day & all nt on the pirates. Kenny & Cash shows. The gutted feeling after London's last hr. Wld they get away with that today? Replacing the trad band at a school (EHGS) dance with our pop group Saints. '67 & excitement & anticipation of Sgt Pepper (which today's kids would never appreciate). Procol Harum WSoP playing on every juke-box everywhere you went. RSG being all you needed to watch to know what was going on. Stones opening for Ronettes & some wag shouting to Mick 'look out there's a barber behind you' to much laughter! Meeting great friends at Didsbury CoE, parties with great 60s music.

Vivien, Warfield - then Bedfont Middlesex
In 1963 I was a Beatles fan at the time and spent many hours at the Airport. My friend and I hitch hiked to London to wait outside the Prince of Wales Theatre and waited from the very early hours of the morning with many others. When they arrived at the theatre the police formed a line to 'protect' them, but they went in the other entrance and this was a distraction. At the end of the day we were listening to the show through the doors and my friend was upset because she hadn't seen Ringo and a ticket tout gave us two ticket free of charge - we couldn't believe it. We were also successful in getting tickets to Ready Steady Go and saw the Moody Blues, Lulu and the Mojos and were seen on tv by all our friends. We used to dress alike so we were on camera a lot, my future husband spotted me and the rest as they say is history..........

Lyndon Bournon Brandon Manitoba (in the 60s, B
The early 60s to me will always be about Cliff and The Shadows and Billy Fury. The Beatles were great, but the mid-60s were a bit of a let-down; then suddenly there was Hendrix and Cream ...

Sandra Rawlinson(murphy) Parbold nr Wigan, lancs
I lived in wigan in the 6o,s and I remember walking days through Ormskirk road, it was a huge procession, the street partys after where great to. My mum used to play this song called "I,ll give you the earth, for you to hold in your two hands for what itrs worth", by some cronney bloke, still dont know who it was. I also remember buying apple tarts that made your tongue bleed.

Lawrence Brighton
Walking up towards the Clock Tower from the Top Rank Suite after a Saturday morning dance, and hiding our cigarettes from the policeman on duty there. It must have been all of 200 yards and we were still worried he might see.Then onto the cofffee bar and listening to Family, Marvin Gaye and The Lemon Pipers whilst sophisticatedly drinking lemon tea.

william morrissey. newzealand
I remember the 60s I was a mod and went around on a scooter, going for a skinhead hair cut and going to all them dance halls and tuning in to radio luxenbourg and playing motown on my old record player,saturday we went to manchester to buy cloths petrol blue trousers,wrangler & levi jeans, sadly all gone but what a great ride.

Jane Doubleday, Leicester
Going to the 69 Isle of Wight festival to see Bob Dylan when I was only 16. My friend and I were visiting her relatives at Southsea so we just got the ferry over on both days. My ticket fell out of my pocket and just as I was having hysterics when I couldn't find it a couple came up to me and said they had found it on the path. Now that was a really great moment - I'm sure I wasn't suitably grateful because I was so quiet in those days.Also earlier memories of listening to Radio Caroline under the bedclothes on school nights and hearing the news that Otis Redding's plane had crashed and that he was feared dead.

Fred Proctor Manchester
My pals all had tickets for Ben E Kings sell out show at the legendary "Twisted Wheel" clubin Manchester. I couldnt get one for love or money but went allong anyway.When the last fans had entered and me left outside. I decided to have a drink in the pub on the corner. I had been there a few minutes when some black guys came in.It was only Ben himself and his band members.I recall him commentating on our beer. Prefering the bottled variety to the drought.Anyway I plucked up courage to ask for his autograph before he hurried back to the gig.I hung around to catch up with my mates.Who were quick to tell me what a great show it was. I wasnt bothered too much having met him in person. And his autograph to prove it Happy days

pete watson trowbridge
seeing the who in 65 at our local top twenty every friday.then having a fight with the mods, who were mostly our friends anyway, the stones at longleat house,all the best bands at nme awards,but the best was p j proby, my girlfriend screamed in my ear all the way through the show,kay if you read this my ears still ring.

Chris, Hetfordshire
Just so much - I'm so happy to have been born at the right time. School and university in the sixties. Gigs at the Roundhouse - of course the Stones and the Beatles. The excitement at every new Beatles album and listening to Pepper at a friend's flat the day it was released and being blown away by the sheer originality of it. Other memories - student unrest, sit-ins at universities (including my own at Birmingham) CND and Vietnam demos. The feeling that we could really make a difference to society. England winning the World Cup.

Angela, London
Being a little girl in the 60's I remember Saturday morning running to the local newsagent for my copy of the girlie comic Twinkle, with the cut out dolls on the back page. I also remember those trendy friends I had, whose parents took them to a little shop in Carnaby Street called 'Kids in Gear' to buy the latest kiddie fashion items. My mother always insisted on purchasing my clothes at Marks and Spencers, bless her.

Pam Staffordshire
Not a 60's memory BUT with all the celebrations on 'Sgt Pepper' and the Beatles; I wondered if you klnew what had happened to the SGT PEPPER MOVIE starring the BeeGees and ELO - the same fantasic music but just that bit special. I remember taking my 2 daughters to see the film - but I've never heard of it since

Carole Gibson, Manchester
The sixties for me revolved around Dusty. She was my idol then and still is now, her voice is timeless. I lived in Bolton then and I remember the touring one-nighters when Dusty would be on a bill with the likes of The Searchers, Gene Pitney, Big Dee Irwin, The Zombies or Bobby Vee. I never missed an episode of Ready, Steady, Go!, even rushing home well before midnight on New Years Eve, rather than miss it. I saw Dusty in Cabaret many times, at places like Batley, Cranbury Fold Inn, Castaways Club and the Talk of the North. Places like those just don't exist anymore. I saw the Beatles on stage at the Apollo Manchester. We were fog bound and had to walk miles but so were they and we all arrived at about the same time. Those were the days.

ian hamilton
my family moved from the north to sussex in 1963. One of the first things we did was go to London and visit Trafalgar Square. I remember Dad made us dress in our new school uniform and he and my mother dressed in their best, there was a real sense of occassion. I stood in the middle of the square surrounded by lions and Nelson looking down on me whilst covered with pigeons who were eating the corn in my hand. In those days there were sellers of bags of seed at a few pennies. When we left the grey and green uniform of Blackwell Junior School was heavily soiled with pigeon muck! As far as the Beatles were concerned,I wore out my copy of a hard days night on the Phillips style dansette player, but i still have it today!

Alejandro Lecaros, Lima
I remember when I was a young teeanger and listened records of The Beatles and The Stones, those records were bought by my elder sister, also remember when my dad took me to the movies to see the film "Help" by the Beatles, since that time I loved the music of the fab four

Iaian W. Wade Knaresborough N. Yorks.
PEPPERHe rocked a liberated youthOne rousing sixties summertimeWith lyrics so ingeniousThey captured Pepper in his prime,And every perfect melodyReached out to all societyWith harmonies that were sublime.His stirring songs epitomisedAn age when love's serenityWas sweeping through a consciousnessThat lauded Pepper's artistry,And the unrivalled repetoireAt his command would never jarOr fade into obscurity.He was revered constantlyAnd had the power to expressA multitude of sentiments With his renowned inventiveness,And at that pyschedelic timeHe made a monumental climbTowards the summit of success.His bandmanship and expertise Were celebrated everywhereAnd bridged the generation gapWith renderings beyond compare,And Pepper knew how life's rewardsCould be translated into chordsThat mended hearts in disrepair.He played each striking masterpieceThroughout a fascinated landAnd gained the stardom he deservedThat was exhausting to withstand,But Pepper managed to surviveAnd kept his memory aliveWith anthems always in demand.

John Bailey - North London then - Leigh-on-Sea now
In 1962, at the age of 15, I was working in London as a messenger trying to earn enough money to keep up with the mod fashion. You could easily spend all of your week’s wages on clothes, records and fags. The cheapest fashion item I ever bought was a dark blue bri-nylon mac. To be cool you had to wear it open at the front with you’re your hands in your trouser pockets and the mac flowing behind like a cape. It took me two years to save up enough money for a deposit on a scooter. Not just any old scooter but a Vespa GS150 VS5. I’ve been told that my colour photo of a mod on his scooter with his bird on the back is very rare. The fly screen, mirrors, front and rear carriers and crash bars would have set me back a few bob. However, I probably picked up the shades and the desert boots, which I had dyed blue, quite cheap.

Janet Croke, Whitby, North Yorkshire
I had my 17th birthday in 1965 and my dad bought me a ticket to see the Rolling Stones in concert at the Sheffield City Hall. (I lived in South Yorkshire then). Also playing were Goldie & The Gingerbreads, Dave Berry and The Hollies, with the Stones as top of the bill. They'd just released "The Last Time". What a fantastic line up! (My dad said it was the worst money he'd ever spent!) But he loved me really!

Rob, Sunningdale
I remember walking down Carnaby Street in 1967 as a young teenager (with my parents!) and being utterly dazzled by the colour of everything: posters of Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Move, Sgt Pepper etc, and all the bright fashions: paisley peaked caps, psychedelic shirts, kipper ties. Everything up till 1967 seemed to be in black and white.

Sarn, Ealing West London
I can remember my sister and I trying hard and succeeding in moving our dad's Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorder in front of the tele so that we could record, via the microphone, The Beatles' set from the Royal Variety Show in 1963. Trying to keep the family from chatting while we recorded was an even harder task. I can remember listening to Radio Luxembourg on my small trani under the bed clothes and hearing Beatles LP tracks for the first time. Worrying where I would get 32/6 from to buy the LP. TV was great - 1966 World Cup win was magical, as was hearing All You Need is Love on Our World, Hey Jude performed on the Frost Programme, and tracks from Ogden's Nut Gone Flake and In Search of The Lost Chord albums on Colour Me Pop. Fantastic memories.

ben midlands uk
i was only born in 1994 but i love the beatles and sgt. pepper

barry gilder saffron walden
the 60s will always be remembered by me for the offshore radio stations like radio caroline, for playing such great music.everyone seemed to carry transistor radios and all were tuned to the offshore stations,untill nasty harold took them away.how i loath that man.

Danny White....Orting, Washington State USA
My memory is of a London girl I met while in the US Army in France in 1962. Fell in love with her at first sight at a Wimpy's in Bayswater/Queensway. I've never forgot her or the best days of my life in UK. I miss her still....thinking of you Enid Seidler and Lomdon. Thank You for that moment in time.

Alan, Basingstoke
The 1960's for me was school days. I was still at Primary School when Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released, but about to leave Primary School and go onto Secondary School -Richard Aldworth in Basingstoke. In the school summer holidays I remember a family holiday in Sandown Isle of Wight where All You Need is Love was played a lot. I was just eleven then.

Karsten Daehmlow, Born in Sassnitz/Rügen, this tim
The Start from Radio DT64, in Berlin, Radio Caroline, all this Music, i was born 11.2.1962and in my home is running all days Radio Luxemburg, my mam like this, dad was on a Ship...

Sean Robert Ramuno, atlanta, georgia, usa
I was a child when The Beatles hit the U.S. airwaves, and that was the end of one young life and the start of my current musical life. I could never thank my four heroes enough for giving me a purpose! And, ALL of those talented, memorable groups will always be on top of my list! A very special "thanks" to my dear friend, Spencer Davis. We alway have fun at The Grammy's, don't we, my friend?Thanks to the U.K. for shaping my musical life! CHEERS!Sean Robert Ramuno

Esther Jones London
BIBA in their shop in Church Street ?,-my long blue Biba boots & short skirts, feather boas,long coats, the move to Ken High Street & then when they moved to the Derry & Toms building with the beautiful Rainbow room,wonderful colours, t-shirts, the roof garden- fabulous shop .Standing on our chairs and screaming for the Stones at the Richmond Jazz and Blues Festival in the rain, Eel PIe Island, Ricky Tick Club with Georgie Fame, The Who at Staines Town Hall, whiter Shade of Pale,Esther & Abi Ofarim,Bob Dylan,Motown....ironing hair to look like Cathy McGowan, panstick & peel off eye liner,black Sobrannie cigarettes ,The Stones again with Marianne Faithful in Hyde Park on a hot afternoon. Crowthers, Sasha platform boots, white Afgan coat, long fringes..... a great time

Johnny Drake - (London) Now Dallas, TX
Pirate ships, DLT and Kenny Everett. Beatlemania and was there sucha thing as B&W telly? Secret Agent, Avengers, Prisoner. And the longest crush I had on Susan Hamshire! (and kinda still do!) Poker games with soon to be famous people as well. And everyone just trying to get along and enjoy the time.

Lynn Staines -Chessington
Oh! so much to remember about the sixties. From the time in Jan 1965 seeing the Beatles at Hamersmith Odeon with my leg in plaster to seeing them playing on the roof on the Apple building.I had a autographed programme from the show but lost it soon after. Where is it now I wonder? 1967 was the best year for me. The music was fantastic. Sgt. Pepper was released and I started work in the Sept aged 15 in a bank in Bruton St, London W1. Radio One had just started with "Flowers in the Rain" by Move. I also used to go to work with bells and beads around my neck and very short skirts. Not the normal dress for a bank!! I also met my future husband on my first day at the bank.The film Bonny and Clyde was released and with it came the fashions. I have a picture somewhere of my friend & I wearing fur coats and "Bonny" berets which we had knitted ourselves. Could reminisce all day but have to get back to work.

Phill Rich, Los Angeles, California
Funny, always remmeber listening to the Beach Boys on my Dad's Grundig radio and now ended up living in the Beach Boys backyard...wonderful memories of holidays in Morecambe, Cornwall and Tenby.

joyce somerville, erskine, scotland
As a twelve-year-old schoolgirl I vividly recall waking up one Saturday morning and hearing Tony Blackburn introducing the first record ever to be played on Radio One -"Flowers In the Rain" by The Move, with the late great Carl Wayne on lead vocals. We often listened to Tony's programmes before we went off to school in the mornings. Then along came Kenny Everett and Alan "Fluff" Freeman with the Top 40 at the weekends -then we had the witty Johnny Moran taking lighter look at life on "Scene and Heard". Saturday evenings were great fun with "Dee Time", and "The Cilla Black Show". The Summer of Love in 1967 was just brilliant -dancing at the Electric Garden in Glasgow to Slade on Sunday evenings -getting on the last bus home with my two friends on the way back from a Uriah Heep concert, discovering it was only going to the local garage and being given the taxi fare for the rest of the journey by a kindly bus conductor -being told off by the boss at work because my mini-skirt was too short and the boys couldn't concentrate ! Being in love with Paul McCartney ( I still am)and shedding a tear when he married the lovely Linda. Oh, happy days !

sandra carpendale northampton
born in liverpool, was about 13 when the beatles released first single, so great to live there being part of it all, liverpool was the centre of everything with all the groups that came out around time. What a great time to be a teenager then, it was magical, remember billy J kramer coming into the coffee bar I worked in, saw the beatles, rolling stones live at the empire, the walker brothers and lulu live on the ferry on a saturday night. Great times and memories of a great city.

Charlie Brown Cardiff
England won the World Cup and youth discovered they had a voice. Pirate Radio took us out of the safe haven of the Light Programme and introduced on our trannies a different musical spectrum of new sounds and artists. Also, the artists who became the '70's' and beyond all had their roots in the era - Elton John, David Bowie, Rod Stewart to name but a few.Co-incidentally I turned down Elton and Rod down for gigs when I was booking groups at College in 1966/67. Elton was £50 with Bluesology and Rod with the Steam Packet £75, instead we opted for The Downliners Sect(thanks Don & Keith you were great and Hamilton and the Movement(Gary Hamilton later went on to star in the hippie musical 'Hair').

MIKE PHILIPS (aberdeen)
growing up with an older brither who used to have all his mates over to our house to listen to the singles on a wee record player.and the 'fashions' - beatle suits,winkle-pickers,tab collars - all to wear to school!!

Pennie Limming - Spalding
Here in Spalding we had one of the first music festivals. On 29th May 1967, Jimi Ehendrix, Cream, Geno Washington, Pink Floyd, Move and Zoot Money played at Barbeque 67 in the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall. It was amazing - all those bands at one gig in our sleepy little market town!

Jo Clarke - Scarborough
Hearing Motown for the first time. The bank holidays and the scooters coming into Scarborough - first stop my house. Spending the summer on the beach listening to the pirate stations then to the clubs at night. Trying to do my GCEs in between.Mods, music, scooters!

Jim Walker -Then in London - Now In Lincolnshire
It is said if you can remember the 60s you weren't there. I was there and and I have very fond memories; just a couple of reminisces.I was at boarding school and 1963-4 was the first year that 5th formers were allowed out on a Saturday night. The local girls convent school had sent us tickets for their Christmas Dance at a local hall - live music -no discos then. Anyway 12 of us were allowed out - dressed in school uniform - raincoats as well. Shoes could our own as the Headmaster understood we couldn't dance in school shoes???Having been inspected that we were correctly dressed we were escorted down the school drive and seen on our way. Preplanned, we ran around the school boundary and into the back entrance to a ground floor dormitory and changed into our own gear (Italian suits etc) and off we went. a great night out followed but we had to be back by 11:30 so the process was reversed to arrive on time in uniform and we got away with it - were the staff really that naive.

Chris Cottrell, Maidstone
At the time living in Kingston upon Thames,and giving up full time employment and part-time group member to become the roadie for Unit 4+2 before their demise, moving on to The Artwoods for a short while and then becoming the roadie/sound engineer for The Searchers in 1967 where I stayed for about 14 years. Apart from the job I also was able to rub shoulders with a great number of artist from the 60's. Fortunately modesty forbids me from multiple name dropping, but several acts stand out including The Move, The Moodie Blues, Jimmy James & The Vagabonds, The Walker Brothers ...

Sherell McNicoll, North East of England
I was only 12 when the sixties ended, but I can still remember the aura! Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale always brings it back. Rolling Stones will always touch a place in me, and 'DUSTY'-well what can I say--that voice just brings the sixties right back-especially when I hear 'All I see is you'. Buying make-up from Woolies, my mum took me to see Amen Corner live at the Granada in Kent. and the beginnings of everything 'mods'. Can't forget going into 'SNOB ' boutique to look for some clothes, and asking for a record to be played in Smiths, then having to go into a cubicle and put headphones on. When I think about the distances I went from home--kids today would not be safe!!! kids toys were simple and inexpensive, the child of the sixties was happy and contented!! Oh god- I'm going there again!!!

Jennie Clements Taunton Somerset
1960's - yes - good days. Taking stolen time off school to go & wait for hours to see the Beatles at Heathrow Airport. Travelling to(I think) Shepperton Studios to watch for them to come and go.Going to Hammersmith Odeon where there were 5 or 6 different groups which would cost far too much these days to have all in one show. The Animals,The Beatles Freddie & the Dreamers & the Animals. Listening to Joan Baez & wearing psychadelic short dresses, white boots & long hair which I used to iron to straighten. I wish I had kept my Afghan coat & so does my daughter...Theyw ere good times... and the music still makes my toes curl. thank goodness for Johnnie Walker....!

Tom ORourke Liverpool [The world]
I'm still there man I never left it and it never left me. I reach my real 60's in 7 years time [bring it on] to be there where the sun still shines Hendrix and janis still play and all the fields are full of people gettin' higher........Don't want to leave gonna get back there when the sun goes down over my last gig...Peace Tom O'Rourke [writer/poet/guitarist/lover in love with life]

Christine Davis, Oxfordshire
Three of us went to the second Isle of Wight pop festival, which was the one with Bob Dylan at the end of August 1969. It was a two-day event, just Sat and Sunday I think, and so we just went - I don't remember anyone actually camping although I suppose there may have been some tents.

Robert Lethbridge PEI Canada
I emmigrated to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada in July 1963, after the Beatles had "arrived" in the UK. I could pick up a radio station in Winnipeg that on a Sunday morning played some of the UK hits. But when I went to the local record shops to buy Beatles records, I was met with blank pitying stares. All of that changed in Feb 1964, when the hottest commodity at any house party was a token Brit.

Ally Riseborough . Beccles, Suffolk
Putting "Like A Rolling Stone",on the Juke Box in the smoke room at the Fleece pub,Beccles.Meeting my future wife Pam at the Crown, in Lowestoft.Midnight swimming off south beach with my denim clad friends,"Great Days".

Jacqui, Nottingham
The Beatles with Chris Montez and Tommy Roe at Newcastle upon Tyne - City Hall Dancing at lunchtime in the Majestic!! Live shows at the Majestic - The Yardbirds, Gene Vincent, The Animals.My first Dinner Dance at the Assembly Rooms when I worked for Adams & Gibbon, I thought it was really posh!

monica jeffress. Bournemouth
In a cinema restraunt after school, having a toasted teacake and cuppa, pop group sat opposite started talking to us, one of em nicked my teacake I cursed him and went to hit him. it ended up with a crawl under tables in the restraunt chasing each other, It was Paul Mccartney, we had such a laugh that day, and he still owes me a teacake, Ringo and George where there also sitting with my sister and our school friends,( Doncaster Gaumont 1962/3)Monica

John Crimes .Chester
Seeing the beatles most weeks.playing live in and around Chester. Passing my nursing exams.

Lindsay, South Wales
Hearing the album Sgt. Pepper on the day that it was released in 1967...someone brought it to our Youth Club in St Albans and we all sat in absolute silence as both sides of it were played on the club's record player...

Trevor Bloom, Occold,Eye, Suffolk
1965 -walking up the middle of the main road in Ipswich after the 204 last bus home had gone at night.Got my mod gear on and singing with mates at the top of our voices'Respect' by Otis Redding. Imagine hearing that Stax sound and Otis sing for the first time. Kids today cannot know that moment!