Spirit Of The 60 1000PCS

For good reason, this decade became known as the 'Swinging Sixties'. For trendy teens and twenty-somethings, it was with him" to hang out at nightclubs, where the latest dance craze was the Twist, brought from the US in 1961 by Chubby Checker. Boutiques flourished with the latest fashion: Gear Guide provided a Who's Who of Carnaby Street and King's Road, Chelsea. The look was by Twiggy or Jean Shrimpton, trendy hair by Vidal Sassoon, and wolf hisses for the revealing miniskirt. But the spark that ignited this youth revolution was the new beat of pop music The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many more with vibrant LP sleeves created an art of their own It was a TV series that propelled the Monkees to stardom and packs of sweet cigarettes .
Television created much of the decade's energy and memories.The mid-sixties brought Ready Steady Go with Cathy McGowan, while Top of the Pops spread the latest upbeat sounds.Radio Luxembourg and the and Pirate radio stations from Radio Caroline and Radio London turned up the volume, especially on the widely used transistor radios. After the banning of pirate stations, Radio 1 became the go-to channel for pop music from 1967. With the addition of BBC 2 in 1964 (and color in the late 1960s), television was buzzing with excitement. : Z Cars, Dr Kildare, Crackerjack, the Avengers and the Morecambe & Wise, and everyone had their annuals.
Increasingly, cheap flights to mainland destinations encouraged the returning tourist with a taste for different cuisines, even if it just came from a Vesta package. The 1960s also saw the arrival of Ski "real fruit" yogurt, Lego bricks, Barbie and Sindy dolls, the Mini, the E-Type Jaguar, Coronation Street, the James Bond movies and Dr Who battling it out. the Daleks. The sporting achievement was England winning the World Cup in 1966, the technological achievement was the man landing on the moon in 1969.