60s Music
We asked...
What music did you listen to? Pop, jazz or classical?
Pop was the first choice of most people who were young in the 60s.
Your favourites were:
- The Beatles
- Cliff Richard and the Shadows
- Gerry and the Pacemakers
- The Searchers
- The Rolling Stones
- Elvis Presley
- Herman's Hermits
Some people thought there was more of a generation gap than others. One guy told us that "Every record that came out was different from what my parents liked?", where as others said that their parents would listen to The Beatles or Cliff Richard. Some older stars were still popular, such as the Forces' Sweetheart, Vera Lynn.
Lets not forget Brett's in Broad Street, Oxford. Members could jump the queue, run up all those steps, start off in the fast room with the lights on, find a girl and off to the slow dance, quiet room. Wow! That was just the best!
Most of the guys like me who went to Brett's never got to the top of the stairs at Carfax Assembly Rooms without at least two or three girls asking if the could book a dance. I could never understand why the guys would nip out for a few drinks to get enough courage to ask a girl to dance. By which time they were too drunk to look half reasonable.
David - apprentice chippy at Kingerlee in Oxford in the 60s
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