They say if you remember the sixties you weren’t there…

[moehat]

For over fifty years I’ve told people that I’d hitched from Cornwall to Hyde Park to see Pink Floyd. In fact, it was The Stones ( someone has just told me). So, I was at one of the most iconic concerts of all time and don’t remember a thing about it. And I wasn’t even stoned: just cream crackered. I didn’t even like the Stones back then: I was a hippie flower child. I’m gobsmacked…

[gamble]

The sixties was snuff time – swinging they were not – and a decade to forget – Nam bam thank you Ma’am for the stench of napalm with your Ena Sharples cornflakes and it was King and the overactive JFK who felt the ugly mood of of the far right ninja warriors and it was the long haired Ghandi following, light living flower people who made San Fran the ultimate place to escape to while a few disbelievers took off for the moon, while over the pond Harry Wilson depressingly stated ” I’m at my best in a messy middle of the road muddle and a Gannex.” What hope the rest of the lump ?
You cannot better the war years, the forever forties full of real pain, real bombs, real sacrifice, real countryside, real love, and a communal sense of real living !

[Purwell]

I was there!
Peace and Love.

I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways

[IanDavies]

I was born in 1963, so remember it from a different perspective.

Daleks on tour in Lewis’s in Manchester, school milk, a big fuss about somewhere called Penny Lane and some blokes from Liverpool ditching their mop tops abnd going all long-haired and hippified to the consternation of my grandparents, that sort of thing.

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[Red Rum 77]

Gamble say “and the overactive JFK”

Reminded me of the opening of THE ODESSA FILES where Jon Voight said “People are dying the whole world tonight, but all they want to read tomorrow is Kennedy.”

Chezza says “I was born in 1963” didn’t they wrote a song about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2frsU3qarwM

Carole King sung my song, as I was born in this month.

The best things in life are free.
But you can give them to the birds and bees.

[Nathan Hughes]

I wasn’t born in the 60’s and I doubt I’ll see the 2060’s either
Mother use to rave about the 60’s though… Something about Elvis, I was never listening

Blackbeard to conquer the World

[Red Rum 77]

Moehat, when you discovered it was the Stones instead of Pink Floyd I bet you had a stone’s song inyour head, “You can’t always get what you want.”

The best things in life are free.
But you can give them to the birds and bees.

[moehat]

I wonder what else my friend is going to tell me about things I did in the sixties that I don’t remember? Bit worrying, that. I also went to see Pink Floyd at Knebworth and don’t remember much about that, either but at least I know that it was definitely Pink Floyd that I didn’t see there. I also went to the first ever Glastonbury festival but didn’t stay so I didn’t see that either. I waited to see the Queens carriage when she went round London with Hirohito but fainted just before they reached us. It must be my superpower: not seeing things. Purwell: was it good? Would I have enjoyed it?

[Ghost of Rob V]

I was there but only very briefly since the year of my birth was 1969. I still recall lying on my parent’s settee with the length of my body not exceeding the width of the cushion I lay upon. I remember my Dad entering the room, smiling and giving me double thumbs up as I looked up at him. Quite possibly my earliest memory.

[He Didnt Like Ground]

JFK might well have been in the Mafia s back pocket but I’m glad he was in charge during the Cuban crisis , a number of the US generals wanting to go toe to toe with Russians but even with all the medication he was stoned on he knew this couldn’t happen , sadly he paid the ultimate price for this , JFK is the ultimate example of the American dream …. don’t scratch to hard at the surface as you won’t like what’s beneath

[Red Rum 77]

Not exactly the Sixties, but here are stuff from the 70/80’s

The best things in life are free.
But you can give them to the birds and bees.

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