Britain in the 1960's

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Contents page

Page 1- Timeline part 1 (1960 – 1963)

Page 2- Timeline part 2 (1964 – 1969)

Page 3- Dancing and music (The Beatles and The Rolling Stones)

Page 4- Fashion (Mary Quant and Biba)

Page 5- Television and Radio

Page 6- Social Changes & Marriage and Family life

Page 7- Legal changes and Homosexuality

Page 8- Mods, Rockers and Beatniks

Page 9-Transport

Page 10- Youth culture

Page 11- Youth culture

Timeline

1960

  • Kennedy won the presidential elections.
  • The Olympic games were held in Rome.
  • ‘The Twist’ becomes internationally popular.
  • Psycho was released (Alfred Hitchcock).
  • Spartacus was released (Stanley Cubrick).
  • Walton’s second symphony.
  • Princess Margaret marries.

1961

  • The soviets have sent the first man into space (Yuri Gagarin)
  • John F Kennedy moves into the Whitehouse and gave one of the most famous speeches ever ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country’.
  • The American Alan Shepherd was sent into space.
  • The Berlin Wall was built.
  • Biggest show of stars.

1962

  • John Glenn became the first man to orbit the earth.
  • Cuban missile crisis.
  • Beatles offered a contract.
  • Opera-king Priam.
  • Death of sex symbol Marilyn Monroe.

1963

  • Martin Luther King Jr. made the speech, "I have a Dream" on August 28, 1963.  More than 200,000 demonstrators showed up to Washington DC to demand equal rights for Black and Whites.
  • President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22.
  • James Bond film ‘from Russia with love’.
  • Beatles song ‘please, pleases me’.

1964

  • The Beatles, a rock and roll band became very popular, the craze over the group became known as “Beatlemania”.
  • This was the first year the cigarette boxes had a warning printed on them.
  • The first Civil Rights bill was passed to stop racial discrimination. 
  • UK Blues Festival.
  • After the fall was released (Arthur Miller).
  • Mrs. United Kingdom

1965

  • Michael Caine in ‘the ipcress file’.
  • The Byrds are formed.
  • The world's first roofed stadium was built, the Houston Astrodome.

1966

  • The beach boys.
  • Beatles retire from touring.
  • TV show ‘The Monkees’.
  • Cream is formed.
  • Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse and a Pioneer of animated films, died of cancer.

1967

  • 6-day war between Israel and other Arab countries.
  • Death of John Coltrane.
  • Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant.

1968

  • Cream split up.
  • Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King was assassinated.
  • Shirley Chisholm was elected America's first black woman to Congress.

1969

  • Astronauts land on the moon.

Dancing and Music

The "Twist" was the most popular dance in the 60's.

Pink Floyd was one of the first bands to play ‘psychedelic’ music.

Many new and different styles of popular music developed during the 1960s.

Motown: a group of black singers and songwriters, there type of music was soul music, lyrical and tuneful.

Britain developed its own style of music and two of the most popular band in the world, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones - were also very popular in America as well as in Britain. There were other types of music created in the sixties some of these are: glam rock, soul, protest music.

The Beatles

The Beatles were a British rock band; the Beatles consisted of George Harrison John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Richard Starr. They were one of the most popular band in the sixties if not they most popular band of the sixties. Their first chart breaking single was  ‘Love Me Do’, this was one of their many number one hits, some of their other number one hits were: ‘Please, Please Me’, ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ and many more, the band reached more complex levels of writing as the sixties went by, john Lennon was assassinated in 1980, even though the Beatles are no longer together they sell millions of records a year. 

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The Rolling Stones

The rolling stones was a much larger band than the Beatles but was still equally as popular, the Rolling Stones consisted of: Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Ian Stewart, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and Bill Wyman. The rolling stones style was sex, drugs, rock and roll; they founded their own record company and own all of their own songs. They have also had dozens on number one hits and Grammies. They were the band of the sixties and seventies. 

Fashion

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