The Sixties: Pop Culture

Almost everything about the sixties seems to be an icon. David Bailey wore a crewneck sweater to marry Catherine Deneuve while Mods and Rockers spent the Easter holidays hurling deckchairs at each other on the seafront. The youth... See more » Almost everything about the sixties seems to be an icon. David Bailey wore a crewneck sweater to marry Catherine Deneuve while Mods and Rockers spent the Easter holidays hurling deckchairs at each other on the seafront. The youth of the 1960s certainly had plenty of heroes to choose from - Mary Quant, Twiggy, Che Guevara, Mick Jagger, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Bernadette Devlin, Yuri Gargarin . . . DJs, pop stars, footballers, racing drivers, film stars and those four lads from Liverpool. Some predicted the mini skirt would lead to anarchy - or even worse, to joy. The Pill and the miniskirt seemed to promise some kind of utopia, providing the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. A decade where the best selling albums came from K-Tel and Ronco - The same people who brought us such labour-saving devices as the Fishin' Magician and the Buttonmatic. The Seventies were about having a good time all of the time. People were too busy having sex, getting drunk and/or stoned, eating fish and chips, smoking Woodbine and posing in front of their bedroom mirrors with tennis racquets to worry about the underlying problems. From Klackers and Curly-Wurly's to The Sex Pistols and Anarchy In The UK via Glitter, Glam and Disco: The seventies remain our favourite era and given half a chance and a bottle of Old Spice we'd be back there again before you could say "Shang-A-Lang". What were the 80s? . . . Bueller? . . . Anyone? Well, you are truly a child of the 80s if any of the following statements are true for you: You know what leg warmers are; You know who Mr. T is; You remember when Atari was a state of the art video game system; You used to be able to breakdance (or wished you could); The phrases "bright light" and "phone home" actually mean something to you; You had a BMX bike. . . The 80s was a decade where young folk wore fluorescent, neon clothing and business folk wore double-breasted suits with shoulder pads and believed "Greed Is Good" . . . and when Prince sang about partying "like it's 1999" it seemed so far away! See less »

Dallas and Dynasty ruled the airwaves, Transformers were more than meets the eye, leggings under a short skirt was considered a stylish look, Michael Jackson was still black and 'by the power of Greyskull you HAD the power!'

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