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To the home of the music, memories and magic of the most
fun and exciting decade in history!
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Carnaby
Street - Merseybeat Songs Carnaby Street bring you a taste of great British music from the 1960’s. Using authentic instruments and amplifiers, they accurately re-create songs made famous by the cream of British artists. Their new CD produced by Rocket Cottage Studio with proceeds going to The Teenage Cancer Trust features songs from the Merseybeat era. Available at all their live gigs, the track list is: I Saw Her Standing There; I Think Of You; How Do You Do It; She Loves You; Searcher Medley; All My Loving; Can't Buy Me Love; A Hard Day's Night; Things We Said Today; Please Please Me; Hippy Hippy Shake; Don't Turn Around; I Wanna Hold Your Hand; Help!; Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying; Twist And Shout |
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In The Day London Walks Our walk takes you around Soho locations that played a big part in the roots of the swinging sixties. It'll take about 2 hours - and if you're of that era, the memories will come flooding back to remind you of that special time in your life. We'll take you to the birthplace of British rock and roll, the street that turned the fashion world on its head and to the influential sites of the day where you'll hear many anecdotes about those amazing years that helped shape the cultural landscape of the nation. |
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Yesterday
TV Most of the channel's programmes are sourced from BBC archives, some are bought in from other stations and some productions are commissioned by UKTV themselves. Programmes previously shown on terrestrial channels are usually edited, to accommodate the current 3 commercial breaks within each hour-long programme. Notable 60s-related programmes include: The 60's: The Beatles' Decade; The Beatles: From Liverpool to San Francisco; I Hate the 60s; Pop Go the Sixties; The Rolling Stones: Truth and Lies; Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: The 60's; Top of the Pops 2 |
Sixties
City Remembers . . .
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Robin Gibb, who has died aged 62, was one of the three brothers behind the Bee Gees, the phenomenally successful pop group responsible for such high-pitched hits as Stayin’ Alive, Night Fever, How Deep is Your Love, More Than a Woman, Jive Talkin’ and You Win Again.It was he who sang the theme of their first British No 1, Massachusetts, in 1967, |
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Donald 'Duck’ Dunn, who has died aged 70, was the bass player with Booker T and the MGs, one of the most influential studio bands of the 1960s. The group was the driving force behind the gritty Southern Soul sound created by Stax Records in Memphis. Probably remembered best for the iconic 'Green Onions'. |
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Alan Oakley, who has died aged 85, was the designer of the Raleigh Chopper, the absurd but beautiful bicycle that became the acme of childhood chic in the 1970s. The Chopper was launched in 1968 in America, where it got off to a slow start. The release of Dennis Hopper’s film Easy Rider coincided with the bike’s launch in Britain and the Chopper went on to sell more than 1.5 million. |
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Long John Baldry & The Vernons Girls - Medley |
 The undisputed horror queen of the 60s, a British actress with eerie, mysterious good looks whose journey into the world of witches and vampires occurred by accident. more |
Pete Staples of 'The Troggs' writes a few words for Sixties City about his time with The Troggs and tells us about his music and new website. more |
Bee Gees - I Started A Joke - 1968 |
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you have any interesting or unique memories, pictures or anecdotes
from the Sixties?
Get in touch with me and we can share and re-live them on Sixties City! |
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Where Do Dead Websites Go?
Having recently checked and updated some site links, I was saddened to discover a rather larger number of 'dead' links than I had anticipated. A lot of interesting sites with unique information and images come and go with alarming frequency, disappearing into the sunset without trace. Many of these are put up on edu sites by students and are apparently 'wiped' when the student leaves. If you have such a site, or are intending to abandon your pages for whatever reason, please get in touch! I am more than happy to import such information into Sixties City so that others may continue to enjoy the content and information and full credit will be given to the original constructor / owner for posterity. |
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Bill
Harry's Sixties The legendary Bill Harry tells the complete and fascinating story behind his iconic 60s music paper 'Mersey Beat' and his involvement with Mersey groups and The Beatles. The pages also now include more than 130 articles written personally by Bill, providing information and his unique insight into 60s events, media and people. Some of the latest articles are: |
 Elvis - Double Trouble |
 I've Gotta Horse |
 The Vernons Girls |
 David Garrick |
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 Elvis - Fun In Acapulco |
 6.5 Special |
 A for Andromeda |
 The Spinners |
 New book releases and various information & links to sites that supply Sixties items both original and retro |
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Story of The Iconic Music Paper - 'Mersey Beat' Presented here, in his own words, is the definitive story of one of the Sixties' seminal music newspapers - providing a fascinating and unique personal insight into the early days of the 'British Beat Boom' and the events, personalities, facts and legend surrounding the birth of the greatest musical revolution the world has ever known. Bill Harry was the founder of the Liverpool music paper which chronicled the groups and venues responsible for the 'Mersey Sound', the publication which was to give its name to the Sixties phenomenon and musical era that has since become almost universally known as 'Mersey Beat'. |
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Thanks so much to all of you who visit this site or e-mail me with questions, information and your own personal memories. I just never have as much time as I would like to work on the site - although there is usually something new somewhere. At the moment I am working on rebuilding all of the pages to a new format and also creating a menu page and site map so that all the content is easily accessible. It may take a while.................. I am very grateful to people like Danny, Glenn and Bill who have, and continue to contribute to the site content. I will continue to update the site, adding more and revised information, and more major content on new pages when available.  |
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