I was a teenager during the late sixties and it was a fantastic time to be alive as a young person. The fashion and makeup were so original and the music was great. I remember London as being a hub of colourful young people. Apparently it was chic to be British in those days.
@@davepeters3317 Certain eras are more special than others. I agree that we tend to romanticize our younger years, but this doesn't mean that every decade is the same. The 60s were indeed culturally original and vibrant. The liberalization of society begun then. There was economic growth. The arts, music, theater etc flourished.
@Donnell Okafor Of course it does. It was hand produced, fresh and original quite unlike the computerised, regurgitated remixed crap we are obliged to put up with on our radios today. Quite frankly I believe the music industry has run out of new ideas. A bit like the fashion industry.
I really like that these documentaries are always so positive about everything they're talking about. They never show anything in a negative light, and I really appreciate that.
I think you must have been listening to a different commentary than I was. As was traditional in 1967 the older generation were baffled and shocked by anything and anyone they didn't understand. The Puritan ethic still ran very deep mid-sixties Britain. Homosexuality wasn't legalised until 1967 and a broad sweep of the public was still strongly against legalisation. Therefore young men with flowers in their hair were considered a stepping stone towards sexual immorality.
I love watching these escapist films too, but i'm not so keen on people mistaking this for reality, creating a false nostalgia, and making negative comparisons to more modern times.
The film is dated 1967, when the 60's "spirit" on all fronts was still ramping up. It continued on until about 1972, when things faded gradually into the 70s. A whirlwind of a time, for sure!
Ah I love these British Pathé films! So interesting for modern eyes. And the commentary was very good too, surprisingly neutral and inquisitive unlike today’s politicised and biased documentaries
Lol what are you talking about? How was this “non political” and “unbiased” are you deaf? Its so bloody trite that people somehow blind themselves to the past’s politicised nature in order to make the tired and loathsome “oh everything’s so political and biased today” statement.
born 1957. was 10 years old, remember them well, was a mini hippie, wearing hot pink and lime green clothes with matching lime green shoes. boy, i thought i was cool. maybe so!!
@@deafmusician2 Hi DeafMusician, I was a hippy 60s /70 s we lived in teepees it was great in the summer, not so good in winter, here in the UK but we were not unwashed plenty of showers, group showers! fantastic times I may be old now but I have lived.
67 I was 17, woring at Vidal Sasson in Knightsbridge. Shopping at Mates, Take 6 and Lord John in Carnaby St. Living around the corner from Portabello Rd in Westbourne Grove. Oh, memories.
Agree. 2 minutes in and digging that paper dress! Whatever happened to those :v ,it looks cool and they reckon it can be washed! Are we only going backwards? Retrofuturism is much better than the real future in any event. The 60s often still manage to look much fresher than anything contemporary. It's an interesting effect.
A snapshot of a long-vanished period in English culture. Outside of London, it was still 1955. Jimi, Small Faces, Stones, Move Beatles, Who etc were brilliant. The charts were dominated by Ken Dodd, Engelbert Humperdinck, New Seekers, and other MOR acts. The image and the reality were two different things. Poignant to see Simon Dee at the height of his short-lived glory. He ended up as a bus driver for London Transport.
I remember the New Seekers. I believe they were put together by a member of the original Seekers from Australia. The New Seekers were okay I suppose. The two girl singers Eve Graham and Lyn Paul were pretty girls, but with mediocre talent and the same applies to the rest of the group. They were not a patch on the original Seekers who produced some brilliant songs. Their female singer, Judith Durham, had one of clearest, loveliest voices I have ever heard. This Australian group was beautiful and original and I remember feeling so sad when they broke up.
I already miss the 2010’s. At least in the early 2010’s the world was still idealistic and optimistic for the future. The birth of memes, dubstep, social media, etc.
@Odd Job - YES , 2020-2021+ are the exact opposite of ~1970 & again early 1990s in Germany (fall of the wall + reunification & the Techno years incl. the Loveparade)
I'm an American and we still have a thing you Brits don't, FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Let me state it for you. Britain was white and wonderful back then. You imported the third world thus you become the third world with every new import.
@@vanillaexplosion99 I am white and I grew up in South Africa in the 1980s. Yet I do not share and appreciate your racist attitude. The world is multicultural. Get used to it.
Watching that era on films such as this, I'm reminded how beautiful the actual colour of period colour-film was. Modern film/video sees too much of the light, shade and detail for my tastes.
Absolutely spectacular! I was born two years later. I want to go back in a time machine for a long & groovy vacation and check out those funky clothes shops. Who wants to come?
Roger Miller got into the act: "En-ga-lin swings like a pendulum do, bobbies on bicycles two by two..." Swinging London rivaled New York and Paris as the place to be in the mid-1960s. There's was fashionable Carnaby Street, Mary Quant, Twiggy and Britain's biggest export of all, the Beatles who proved themselves the top pop music innovators with Revolver and Sergeant Pepper. What a time! And it passed so quickly.
This is just fantastic to see, the 60s was a great time to be alive, it was like the whole world had turned to colour, we'll got no time machines, except in a we have, with photos and film, thank god we can look into the past
1967 - the year we 60s people were blown away by the greatest songs that have ever come into being - See Emily Play; Whiter Shade of Pale; Homburg; Zabadak; From the Underworld; Lazy Sunday; Itchycoo Park; Excerpt from a Teenage Opera; Days of Pearly Spencer; Hole in my Shoe; Paper Sun; Flowers in the Rain; I'm a Believer; Alternate Title; All You Need is Love; Love is All Around; Groovin; San Francisco; Lets Go to San Francisco; Happy Together; She'd Rather Be With Me; San Franciscan Nights; White Rabbit; Reflections; Massachusetts; Penny Lane; Strawberry Fields; Sgt Peppers and Hello... Goodbye.
@@margueritemazzeo2904 The yearI got married aged 25 so you can see Im older than you! The best of the Beatles was prior to that year but some might disagree..
The “Swinging Sixties” only really happened, to a small number of people, in a small number of places, mainly in London, whilst everybody else barely noticed it.
I went to Portobelo Road in July 1967 to buy one of the red military jackets, it cost £3.17.6 quite asum then. Rode from Oxford to London on my Lambretta scooter to do this. I wore the tunic when riding around Oxford on said scooter. It got a lot of attention, unfortunately, from local police who told me it was illegal to wear militart clothing. Got fed up with being pulled over, so I sold the tunic on and watched someone else chatting to plod! It was a fun time to around then.
I always enjoy old people saying that my generation is crazy, and they just don't understand this new fashion and music... When people said the same to them when they were teens! We are all the same
If you mean this current generation of people in their teens, yes you have no style of your own. It’s all a take-on or stolen from prior generations. The music is just 80’s synth with 90’s hip-hop and the clothing is “nerd” mixed with yuppie. I’m not old, but I have enough common sense to see this generation has zero originality. In fact, it’s not just this generation, but the one before it too. From the year 2000-present day, there are no stand out styles or decade defining attributes. Even in the early 90’s, they had a way of satirizing the 80’s and understood what defined that decade, and it was just five years before. But, if you try to do that today, look back at 2010, what defines that time? NOTHING… not a damn thing. People still look the same and dress the same, music is still the same. Your generation has no original ideas or style.
I was a kid in the 60s, so I didn't understand the hype, but I do remember that my Dad and some of his friends hated the music and the fashion. I thought this time was fun, probably better than the austere and conformist 50s.
3:52 in -- "there's a boy, Paul Whitehead..." - he went on to paint excellent album covers for Prog-Rock band Genesis from 1970-1972 (one for each year). (Roger Dean didn't start painting Yes album covers until 1971.)
Very enjoyable to watch this, 20 years after the end of the war a social change was bound to happen. 60s music, film, art and fashion was inventive and so much happened socially then with more women working for instance. London wasn't a barometer of the whole of the UK, many people still lived in poverty. This little film is fun to watch nevertheless. Personally I still reckon that the combined benefits of the washing machine and contraceptive pill did the most to improve lifestyles!
Wife replying. Girl wore a paper dress to work the supervisor sent her home. I remember the paper knickers they were brilliant no washing just throw them away specially, they came in handy every month
So there it was from the very beginning: the two sides of the Boomers. One side was youthful self-indulgence and creativity. And the other was the drive for career and money. As youth faded and the creativity was exhausted, what was left was the drive for career and money... and self-indulgence.
aahchoo1 people who were truly part of the counterculture didn't loose their creativity or their principles as they grew older, the media just stopped reporting about them.
Wow who'dathunk, the closer you look at those who 'sprout up from nowhere' the more turgid it gets, there is no 'boy done good' stories, no room on the ladder, all the rungs taken up by the brats of the established
My favorite decade ever ! People who were young during the 1960's (and especially in Britain) were so lucky. There's something so special about the 60s... People looked happier, healthy, dreamy,... Even childlike somehow (I'm saying this in a very good way). I love everything about this time, the music, the fashion, the lifestyle ! Also, I wish I could live in a world were people don't have cellphones, in a world where there is no internet but just human beings interacting with each other. I'm 22 but I'm trying my best to get rid of all those bad habits that reign everywhere now. By the way, I also notice that everyone was looking thin and healthy, not one overweight person in sight. I guess it's because people were much more active back then and weren't consuming junk food and such. Women had a small waist and were looking feminine and elegant. I will try my best to resemble them. Ugh, I'm being so nostalgic again...
People looked childlike because that was fashionable. The big hair& bobs, big eye makeup, a line shift dresses, tights, all the color, the poses of the fashion models , their body type. It was a return to youth. To look like a toddler or a doll.
Stop at 1:16 and look at the typewriter on the desk. I've got one similar and in full working order. Its an earlier Olympia and German made; later they were updated and electrified, and quite good they were too - until the PC came along in the 80s and all typewriters went out of business; including myself as I used to repair the damn thing !!!!
@@mogznwaz I didn't vote Brexit . I think media etc likes to turn each generation against the other ..stops people being united. I think we were "woke"in the 1960's look at how Civil rights , anti Vietnam war was challenged by the young in USA . Student riots in France etc We are all "senior citizens " now and not all Karen's!
@@yorkshirepudding6980 But that's my point. The people in this video are mostly post war Boomers - they were social justice warriors of their day, upending the old order. And now modern wokies hate them and blame them for Brexit and for not being woke enough. Thy had a clock counting old people's deaths until there was a 'remain majority'. That's sick. I don't think the Boomers were that disrespectful to their parents.
I was in my early teens at the beginning of the 60's and was so envious of people living in London where it appeared so exciting and the best place to be. Biba and Mary Quant were icons with models Jean Shrimpton and Patti Boyd. I think as new stuff comes along good behaviour seems to become lost. Nowadays a person wouldn't pick up litter after missing the bin , they would leave it on the ground. It would be great if we could pick out the best from each decade but that is too subjective and people would fight over different aspects
0:53 in -- "that girl" perusing integral calculus looks a lot like Yoko Ono, who arrived in London that year (asked over from New York by gallery owners John Dunbar, Peter Asher & Barry Miles).
i like this documentary because it seems to be more of a sympathetic look at the counter culture movement and sees it as the youth doing things differently and being creative rather than being dangerous as their elders saw them
It looks glamorous, and in many ways was; however, the reality for many was darker: There was tremendous inequality, many men earned very little in dangerous, dirty, or precarious employment, and women were paid even less. Women were expected to leave their jobs if they married, and were not permitted to do things we take for granted now, such as borrow money, rent a car or TV, without the written permission of a man. Advertisements for accommodation would openly state, "No dogs, no Irish, no blacks", and so on. The "rebellious" youth culture shown in this video was in some ways a protest against these bad old ways in society, and the grubby, grimy old Britain as much of it was then, as much as being an expression of youthful exuberance and new ideas.
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 I am not so sure. In my judgement, happiness is about the same. One thing that is noticeable is that people are very much wealthier now than the were in the 1960s.
No Covid - No Climate Change, and no kind of terror we endure today... I’ve been trying to think the one thing that’s lacking today; ATMOSPHERE - we had it back then in bucket loads! Everything was exciting - music, fashion. No excitement today - only misery and worry about the future... The very opposite we had back then - wish I could go back... It might not have been perfect - but it was hell of a lot better than today! I’m SO glad I was born at the time I was. I feel so sorry for the young ones today at what they missed out on - and will never really know...
Can anybody identify the song at the beginning? It has a GREAT groove, I love it! EDIT: I did some digging, its "It Must Be Love" by Barney J Barnes & The Intro, unreleased at the time
@@wouter_scholten The music, the aesthetics, the fashion, the ideas were all heavily influenced by Hippies and psychedelics. At least the part people today are nostalgic for. Of course, most people did not take psychedelics. Not even most of the youth.
I must say I agree with those here who wish they could experience this world first hand. I guess the closest I ever came was Grateful Dead shows back in the early to mid 80's. I was born in '58, so I have some memory of the late 60's, but was a bit too young to really take part in what was going on. Sad to think how old those hippies are now if still alive. Heck, I'm getting up there myself.
I remember the 1960s... I'm 62. I'm sure I'm guilty of it as well with other previous eras, but it's easy to think such modern ways were widespread: like today, the vast majority of people were just ordinary Joes, doing humdrum jobs and living in suits, ties and tweed skirts, etc.
That is so true. It is the media who made it look like a certain stereotypical way. The media is at fault for making people of that era, or any era, look as if they were all like that!
Nice to see reporting that's actually fair towards those crazy youths even while catering to a viewership who likely couldn't relate to many of their views.
People misinterpret "The 60s". Some have this romantic view that everyone was going around drugged, listening to zany music 20 hours a day and advocating free love and peace. It was an exciting time but mainly for the fact that - for the first time ever - the ordinary working Western youth had spare cash and were able to express themselves. They also had spare time for recreation and were given a voice for opinions that were previously distained. - This was groundbreaking. Women had availability of contraception and could have sex without the spectre of an unwanted pregnancy. Opprobrium for this lifestyle was no longer the issue In short, the youth were unshackled. Was this a good thing thing? It depends on your perspective.. Possibly not. - Youth tends to be irresponsible and those velvet wearing baby boomers are now the progressive professors at universities, advocating anarchy. If you put a cashed-up kid in a candy shop, don't be surprised if he eats a lot of candy.
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This 81 year old guy just got a lot of good memories resurrected. Thank you.
You guys were the most handsome back then! I saw a picture of my dad and I never knew he was once so handsome 😅 nice suits too
I was a teenager during the late sixties and it was a fantastic time to be alive as a young person. The fashion and makeup were so original and the music was great. I remember London as being a hub of colourful young people. Apparently it was chic to be British in those days.
@@davepeters3317 Certain eras are more special than others. I agree that we tend to romanticize our younger years, but this doesn't mean that every decade is the same. The 60s were indeed culturally original and vibrant. The liberalization of society begun then. There was economic growth. The arts, music, theater etc flourished.
And the DruGz😍🌍😵💫⛽️it could get real wacky to say the least
Greetings Grandpa. I respect you.
@Donnell Okafor Of course it does. It was hand produced, fresh and original quite unlike the computerised, regurgitated remixed crap we are obliged to put up with on our radios today. Quite frankly I believe the music industry has run out of new ideas. A bit like the fashion industry.
@Donnell Okafor our parent´s generation
tupac´s parent´s generation
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
I really like that these documentaries are always so positive about everything they're talking about. They never show anything in a negative light, and I really appreciate that.
Guess why people miss these films but not this mornings news...
I think you must have been listening to a different commentary than I was. As was traditional in 1967 the older generation were baffled and shocked by anything and anyone they didn't understand. The Puritan ethic still ran very deep mid-sixties Britain. Homosexuality wasn't legalised until 1967 and a broad sweep of the public was still strongly against legalisation. Therefore young men with flowers in their hair were considered a stepping stone towards sexual immorality.
They werent wrong.@@mark9978
Yes, I agree ❤
I love watching these escapist films too, but i'm not so keen on people mistaking this for reality, creating a false nostalgia, and making negative comparisons to more modern times.
Apparently this is Yoko Ono at 0:53 although we are not sure why she is doing advanced mathematics!
British Pathé Because she's Japanese
Why, she's trying to integrate.
Numerology or Kabbalah perhaps?
Trying to work out the compound interest on 50 years worth of John Lennon’s royalties!
Yes, it was Yoko ono and her former husband, Tony Cox.
I was a teen in the 60s, in London loved it.
The film is dated 1967, when the 60's "spirit" on all fronts was still ramping up. It continued on until about 1972, when things faded gradually into the 70s. A whirlwind of a time, for sure!
Ah, ‘67……the year I went to Art School!
Ah I love these British Pathé films! So interesting for modern eyes. And the commentary was very good too, surprisingly neutral and inquisitive unlike today’s politicised and biased documentaries
Lol what are you talking about? How was this “non political” and “unbiased” are you deaf? Its so bloody trite that people somehow blind themselves to the past’s politicised nature in order to make the tired and loathsome “oh everything’s so political and biased today” statement.
Thank you Keith Albarn for having Damon, your spirit lives on in a modern way that has been relevant to me since I was 13 (46 now!)
Odd to think there may be some 80 year olds watching this going "That's me!"
I was 15 then and I met my husband that year on a blind date. Still together!
Peachy-The-Nerdy-Nana UK congratulations to you both for staying together
Far less do nowadays
@@killjoy4540 the state/media want weak families.
@BD my mom was 13 in 1967 and she's 68 now, so if these people were say 25yrs ol at the time then those individuals would be 80 now
It's mad, I have always thought of the 60s as a recent time but the 20 & 30 year olds from that era are in their 90s...
👵🏼. And now we're in our sixties and seventies ! Great times to have been young , FUN times .
Someone please invent a time machine.
I feel blessed to have grown up in the 60s and 70s, wild and magic times!
Yes. I lived in Chelsea then
Today the eye-catching pretty, leggy birds of the '60's are invisible, hidden within the forms of old ladies.
@@mylife2022
May i hop on your time machine as well.
Bored to tears with Covid..
Take care
Australia
I was 16in 1967 and it was a great time to be a teen. From the music, fashion and the whole vibe. So glad to have been a child of the 60s
We were much luckier than the teens of today.
born 1957. was 10 years old, remember them well, was a mini hippie, wearing hot pink and lime green clothes with matching lime green shoes. boy, i thought i was cool. maybe so!!
Loretta Tay!or love that!!
Loretta i SWEAR you were cool!
U werent. Nobody was. All the hippies look like they hadn't seen a shower in months
@@deafmusician2 Hi DeafMusician, I was a hippy 60s /70 s we lived in teepees it was great in the summer, not so good in winter, here in the UK but we were not unwashed plenty of showers, group showers! fantastic times I may be old now but I have lived.
I was born in '58 and I was the first in my class to wear a mini dress in '67. It was hot pink and orange and just too cool.
Finally! A documentary for OUR generation!
67 I was 17, woring at Vidal Sasson in Knightsbridge. Shopping at Mates, Take 6 and Lord John in Carnaby St. Living around the corner from Portabello Rd in Westbourne Grove. Oh, memories.
Nice tale mate, I was zero etc (March 67) but wish I was a teen in the 60's. My big-bro would be the 70's, for the music he says. :)
They later found King Arthur smoking a joint in the woods while wearing a paper dress.
No no that was Princess Margaret.
🤣
The 60s was a good decade for fashion
Agree. 2 minutes in and digging that paper dress! Whatever happened to those :v ,it looks cool and they reckon it can be washed! Are we only going backwards? Retrofuturism is much better than the real future in any event. The 60s often still manage to look much fresher than anything contemporary. It's an interesting effect.
Followed by the awful 70s and the absolutely hideous 80s.
@@mitseraffej5812 but the 90s was good, with a throwback to the 60s in the Manchester scene at the end of the 80s and start of the 90s
For men as well as women!
@@mothratemporalradio517 NYC too! Deee-Lite for example!
those orange hats with holes were fab. I still have two.
The hat with holes was in Biba in Kensington before it moved into where Derry & Toms was. I loved the old shop, it was so exciting.
A snapshot of a long-vanished period in English culture.
Outside of London, it was still 1955. Jimi, Small Faces, Stones, Move
Beatles, Who etc were brilliant. The charts were dominated by Ken Dodd, Engelbert Humperdinck, New Seekers, and other MOR acts.
The image and the reality were two different things. Poignant to see
Simon Dee at the height of his short-lived glory.
He ended up as a bus driver for London Transport.
I remember the New Seekers. I believe they were put together by a member of the original Seekers from Australia. The New Seekers were okay I suppose. The two girl singers Eve Graham and Lyn Paul were pretty girls, but with mediocre talent and the same applies to the rest of the group. They were not a patch on the original Seekers who produced some brilliant songs. Their female singer, Judith Durham, had one of clearest, loveliest voices I have ever heard. This Australian group was beautiful and original and I remember feeling so sad when they broke up.
Now we have the utterly miserable 2020s
Only if you choose it to be.
@@andrewkitchenuk yes psychosis can make you feel anything
I already miss the 2010’s. At least in the early 2010’s the world was still idealistic and optimistic for the future. The birth of memes, dubstep, social media, etc.
@Odd Job -
YES , 2020-2021+ are the exact opposite of ~1970 & again early 1990s in Germany (fall of the wall + reunification & the Techno years incl. the Loveparade)
It's up to us to take it back
The song is Barney J Barnes And The Intro - It Must Be Love
You're welcome.
Thank you so much :)
Everything about this video makes me happy/sad
I know what you mean.
Bitter /sweet melancholy
I'm an American and we still have a thing you Brits don't, FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Let me state it for you. Britain was white and wonderful back then. You imported the third world thus you become the third world with every new import.
@@vanillaexplosion99 get yourself and your nasty racist comment out of here
@@vanillaexplosion99 I am white and I grew up in South Africa in the 1980s. Yet I do not share and appreciate your racist attitude. The world is multicultural. Get used to it.
The 1960s, what a time to be alive 🏵
Watching that era on films such as this, I'm reminded how beautiful the actual colour of period colour-film was. Modern film/video sees too much of the light, shade and detail for my tastes.
Good point. 🎥🎬🎨📆
I see the difference, and I agree!
As an American I’m so fascinated with the Brits and the whole London vibe. The 60s in London looked amazing
Not just in London! In all big cities.
Yes London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool b/c of the Beatles but London to me was the Mecca of it all
i know we shouldn't romanticize the past and all but damn this documentary makes me wanna experience this for like one day
Do it😊mushrooms and all
now is an african city
Absolutely spectacular! I was born two years later.
I want to go back in a time machine for a long & groovy vacation and check out those funky clothes shops.
Who wants to come?
Yeah, man!
Roger Miller got into the act: "En-ga-lin swings like a pendulum do, bobbies on bicycles two by two..." Swinging London rivaled New York and Paris as the place to be in the mid-1960s. There's was fashionable Carnaby Street, Mary Quant, Twiggy and Britain's biggest export of all, the Beatles who proved themselves the top pop music innovators with Revolver and Sergeant Pepper. What a time! And it passed so quickly.
what a time to be alive
I need that Bob Dylan paper dress
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eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=317848 (from a quick Google)
yeah don't throw those away!!!
Why not make one for yourself? I am sure it cannot be that difficult.
@@Daud76 I’m guess easier to buy, and cool 😎 But actually it’s a really good idea... 👍
This is just fantastic to see, the 60s was a great time to be alive, it was like the whole world had turned to colour, we'll got no time machines, except in a we have, with photos and film, thank god we can look into the past
1967 - the year we 60s people were blown away by the greatest songs that have ever come into being - See Emily Play; Whiter Shade of Pale; Homburg; Zabadak; From the Underworld; Lazy Sunday; Itchycoo Park; Excerpt from a Teenage Opera; Days of Pearly Spencer; Hole in my Shoe; Paper Sun; Flowers in the Rain; I'm a Believer; Alternate Title; All You Need is Love; Love is All Around; Groovin; San Francisco; Lets Go to San Francisco; Happy Together; She'd Rather Be With Me; San Franciscan Nights; White Rabbit; Reflections; Massachusetts; Penny Lane; Strawberry Fields; Sgt Peppers and Hello... Goodbye.
Did you forget 'the Beatles' deliberately?
@@rogerwoodhouse7945Her last 4 songs she listed are The Beatles..guess ur too young to know that..😂😂
@@margueritemazzeo2904 The yearI got married aged 25 so you can see Im older than you! The best of the Beatles was prior to that year but some might disagree..
Caetano Veloso - Alegria, alegria.
Zabadak!! Really😀😀.....
That 117 group footage is so awesome
The “Swinging Sixties” only really happened, to a small number of people, in a small number of places, mainly in London, whilst everybody else barely noticed it.
You couldn't fail to notice it with TV, radio, the press & trips to London.
It was only in 1967, next year the boom was over and back to roots was fashion.
That's what my mum told me, as well.
Still, it looked like fun though, eh?
Bit different to covid world.😫
@paul beenis bit rude
@paul beenis stantuff!
Just for fun I went on to eBay and searched for paper dresses. You can actually by them still in the original package. ❤️
How much do they cost?
Wow !
all you have to do is take some LSD and listen to the Beatles and Bam the 60's
But that doesn't bring back the leggy birds, other than in wistful memory.
And what we do with all the crap that surround us? Like the new music, the bad attitude people, the junk food, the new fashions, etc?
Wow, it's so cool to see our grandparents freaking out.
Oh my God! This was fantastic! How utterly delicious!!!!
This is fantastic
Murray walker1989!
Yes, the birds were delicious.
I went to Portobelo Road in July 1967 to buy one of the red military jackets, it cost £3.17.6 quite asum then. Rode from Oxford to London on my Lambretta scooter to do this. I wore the tunic when riding around Oxford on said scooter. It got a lot of attention, unfortunately, from local police who told me it was illegal to wear militart clothing. Got fed up with being pulled over, so I sold the tunic on and watched someone else chatting to plod! It was a fun time to around then.
cool story man
steve gale sorry my friend , but I did. The shop is depicted in the clip.
Oh to tele port back to these times , just for a long weekend 🇬🇧 🎸 ☮️ 👚 👕 👖 👛
Granny takes a trip 😎
bring back the paper dress!!!!!
And the red hat with holes in it!
Its not sustainable my guy
@@zzskal plastic fiber is?
They were highly flammable unfortunately
Bring back the leggy birds with bikini curves!!!
I always enjoy old people saying that my generation is crazy, and they just don't understand this new fashion and music... When people said the same to them when they were teens! We are all the same
The music is used to divide the generations. This is done on purpose. All part of the divide and conquer strategy of our enemies.
If you mean this current generation of people in their teens, yes you have no style of your own. It’s all a take-on or stolen from prior generations. The music is just 80’s synth with 90’s hip-hop and the clothing is “nerd” mixed with yuppie. I’m not old, but I have enough common sense to see this generation has zero originality. In fact, it’s not just this generation, but the one before it too. From the year 2000-present day, there are no stand out styles or decade defining attributes. Even in the early 90’s, they had a way of satirizing the 80’s and understood what defined that decade, and it was just five years before. But, if you try to do that today, look back at 2010, what defines that time? NOTHING… not a damn thing. People still look the same and dress the same, music is still the same. Your generation has no original ideas or style.
3:10 that is a LOOK 😍💜 love crochet dresses so much!
There were lots of girls/women wearing them...Nice. I loved the mini-skirts/dresses. :-)
I love that dress too! And the one Hayley Mills wore in the movie "Endless Night."
@@jharris947 Short skirts and knee high boots. What a sexy look that was!
I still have the mini dress my dear Grannie (born 1889) crocheted for me when I was 14 in 1968!
@@54pomkiwi My grandmother crocheted a green mini dress for my elder sister in 1969, I always loved it.
60s what a lovely time
I was a kid in the 60s, so I didn't understand the hype, but I do remember that my Dad and some of his friends hated the music and the fashion. I thought this time was fun, probably better than the austere and conformist 50s.
@Jesse Link 3 You are making huge assumptions here, with no basis.
@Jesse Link 3 WAT
Groovey man, just groooooovy.
Dennis Whiter dench...opera...n......deo.......my...b.....r...j...
I'd sell my soul to go to the sixties
cerys b yes me too!!
ME THREE
Do it then
Yea but you know the future now, so when you go back, every day that passes the melancholy would grow ever more intense.
same
3:52 in -- "there's a boy, Paul Whitehead..." - he went on to paint excellent album covers for Prog-Rock band Genesis from 1970-1972 (one for each year). (Roger Dean didn't start painting Yes album covers until 1971.)
Very enjoyable to watch this, 20 years after the end of the war a social change was bound to happen.
60s music, film, art and fashion was inventive and so much happened socially then with more women working for instance. London wasn't a barometer of the whole of the UK, many people still lived in poverty. This little film is fun to watch nevertheless. Personally I still reckon that the combined benefits of the washing machine and contraceptive pill did the most to improve lifestyles!
Don’t forget the microwave oven
Wife replying. Girl wore a paper dress to work the supervisor sent her home. I remember the paper knickers they were brilliant no washing just throw them away specially, they came in handy every month
I felt younger and excited again when I watched this!!
I was only a kid. Wish I'd been older. Would have loved it
all those beautiful guitars
Those years ;London in mid 60's ...so fun n nostalgic😶😌✌️Salam with ❤ from Malaya ( now Malaysia singapore)🇲🇾🇬🇧
So there it was from the very beginning: the two sides of the Boomers. One side was youthful self-indulgence and creativity. And the other was the drive for career and money. As youth faded and the creativity was exhausted, what was left was the drive for career and money... and self-indulgence.
aahchoo1 people who were truly part of the counterculture didn't loose their creativity or their principles as they grew older, the media just stopped reporting about them.
Nothing wrong with self-indulgence. I earned my money and I have every right to use it how I please.
With freedom comes responsibility and humility.
aahchoo1 nothing to do with boomers that is s pretty much what’s still important
@@l01l01l01l01l01l Boomers are the most narcissistic generation, according to studies... and my personal experience too.
this is the best video i’ve ever seen
The artist Keith Albarn, mentioned 04:47 and shown 04:56 (I believe), is Damon Albarn's dad.
Wow who'dathunk, the closer you look at those who 'sprout up from nowhere' the more turgid it gets, there is no 'boy done good' stories, no room on the ladder, all the rungs taken up by the brats of the established
This is incredible!!
My favorite decade ever ! People who were young during the 1960's (and especially in Britain) were so lucky. There's something so special about the 60s... People looked happier, healthy, dreamy,... Even childlike somehow (I'm saying this in a very good way). I love everything about this time, the music, the fashion, the lifestyle ! Also, I wish I could live in a world were people don't have cellphones, in a world where there is no internet but just human beings interacting with each other. I'm 22 but I'm trying my best to get rid of all those bad habits that reign everywhere now. By the way, I also notice that everyone was looking thin and healthy, not one overweight person in sight. I guess it's because people were much more active back then and weren't consuming junk food and such. Women had a small waist and were looking feminine and elegant. I will try my best to resemble them. Ugh, I'm being so nostalgic again...
You sound unhappy
@@daphne4983 Unhappy about our decade ? Hmmm yes, I am. I wish I could just travel through time.
@@balletxcaroline it makes me mad that we can’t
People looked childlike because that was fashionable. The big hair& bobs, big eye makeup, a line shift dresses, tights, all the color, the poses of the fashion models , their body type. It was a return to youth. To look like a toddler or a doll.
Yes, it was the days before McDonalds and American style junk food.
Stop at 1:16 and look at the typewriter on the desk. I've got one similar and in full working order. Its an earlier Olympia and German made; later they were updated and electrified, and quite good they were too - until the PC came along in the 80s and all typewriters went out of business; including myself as I used to repair the damn thing !!!!
60 in London 🇬🇧!!!!
Meraviglioso....Meraviglioso!!!!!!! ❤🇬🇧
Imagine you taking off a paper dress from a bag, with Bob Dylan's face! The future it's here!
Sadly, Swan Arcade in Newcastle which is portrayed briefly here has been long-since demolished.
I wish I could've grown up in this era
The British Invasion....Wow! I remember listening to so many bands when I could get to my parent's radio !!!
It was a great time to grow up in. Innovative, great music, fashion, freedom and fun . How we all wanted to change the World.
Yet now that same generation is being denigrated and insulted for daring to vote for Brexit and for not being woke or diverse enough.
@@mogznwaz I didn't vote Brexit . I think media etc likes to turn each generation against the other ..stops people being united. I think we were "woke"in the 1960's look at how Civil rights , anti Vietnam war was challenged by the young in USA . Student riots in France etc We are all "senior citizens " now and not all Karen's!
@@yorkshirepudding6980 But that's my point. The people in this video are mostly post war Boomers - they were social justice warriors of their day, upending the old order. And now modern wokies hate them and blame them for Brexit and for not being woke enough. Thy had a clock counting old people's deaths until there was a 'remain majority'. That's sick. I don't think the Boomers were that disrespectful to their parents.
they did change it, they got rif ot it and embraced leftism and africnaims and london will never look like thta anymnore
anyone know the name of the first song????
hilarious how it's documented
There are a couple of films here and it seems like the 60's were just about shopping which is not true. I was there in London.
all about staying stoned if I recall with whats left of my brain at 68!
Shopping?
I was in my early teens at the beginning of the 60's and was so envious of people living in London where it appeared so exciting and the best place to be. Biba and Mary Quant were icons with models Jean Shrimpton and Patti Boyd. I think as new stuff comes along good behaviour seems to become lost. Nowadays a person wouldn't pick up litter after missing the bin , they would leave it on the ground. It would be great if we could pick out the best from each decade but that is too subjective and people would fight over different aspects
0:53 in -- "that girl" perusing integral calculus looks a lot like Yoko Ono, who arrived in London that year (asked over from New York by gallery owners John Dunbar, Peter Asher & Barry Miles).
It was Yoko and her former husband, Tony Cox. And that was the Wrapping Event, where she wrapped up the lions of Trafalguar square on August 3, 1967.
i like this documentary because it seems to be more of a sympathetic look at the counter culture movement and sees it as the youth doing things differently and being creative rather than being dangerous as their elders saw them
I don't care, I'm living the 6o's now. I'm 25 and I don't care.
That's the spirit!
Awesome.. keep it coming
I'd love to have experienced this especially at the age of 19 I am now
It looks glamorous, and in many ways was; however, the reality for many was darker: There was tremendous inequality, many men earned very little in dangerous, dirty, or precarious employment, and women were paid even less. Women were expected to leave their jobs if they married, and were not permitted to do things we take for granted now, such as borrow money, rent a car or TV, without the written permission of a man. Advertisements for accommodation would openly state, "No dogs, no Irish, no blacks", and so on. The "rebellious" youth culture shown in this video was in some ways a protest against these bad old ways in society, and the grubby, grimy old Britain as much of it was then, as much as being an expression of youthful exuberance and new ideas.
Excellent observations, very true.
Sounds like heaven. Hope you're enjoying the hell you created.
@@AlanWattResistance I did not create it; previous generations were responsible for that. I was only a witness.
And with all that, people were much happier than they are now!
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 I am not so sure. In my judgement, happiness is about the same. One thing that is noticeable is that people are very much wealthier now than the were in the 1960s.
Yoko Ono at 0:49
Luis Suarez 😂😂😂😂😂
Luis Suarez ok..nich..a......nich...d....
Looking for a rich Beatle to get married.
No Covid - No Climate Change, and no kind of terror we endure today... I’ve been trying to think the one thing that’s lacking today; ATMOSPHERE - we had it back then in bucket loads! Everything was exciting - music, fashion. No excitement today - only misery and worry about the future... The very opposite we had back then - wish I could go back... It might not have been perfect - but it was hell of a lot better than today! I’m SO glad I was born at the time I was. I feel so sorry for the young ones today at what they missed out on - and will never really know...
Can anybody identify the song at the beginning? It has a GREAT groove, I love it!
EDIT: I did some digging, its "It Must Be Love" by Barney J Barnes & The Intro, unreleased at the time
amazing!
Groovy
London, especially “swinging” London was a completely different place than the English countryside. I never saw swinging England
@@hughmaxwell8143 yes true
Far out
Not for drag queens though
There was normality at one point in time!
Look at London now. Not even a place I want to visit anymore.
London isn't British anymore. It's just another international shopping mall.
@Jesse Link 3 That's been proven again this weekend, with the multiple stabbings that occurred.
Bullshit, it's still a great place to visit or live in.
@@matthewsmith8242 hmmm! And what about you colonizes the world forcefully ? Now it's your turn.
@Shaq hehe! I m Prue a Brit. It's Hilarious that you called your own people poo in the loo. Cheers mate🥂.
Is that Yoko Ono at 0:54 mins ?
looks like it.
This made me happy thankyou
It's funny that so many people are nostalgic for the 60s and 70s but still totally anti-psychedelics. You cannot separate them.
Yes you can separate them. That was only a small part of it, for some people.
@@wouter_scholten The music, the aesthetics, the fashion, the ideas were all heavily influenced by Hippies and psychedelics. At least the part people today are nostalgic for. Of course, most people did not take psychedelics. Not even most of the youth.
People from the fifties and sixties dudnt grow into so called old darts but have always remained rebellious and loving the music.
Sixties maybe. Fifties, not so much from my experience.
I must say I agree with those here who wish they could experience this world first hand. I guess the closest I ever came was Grateful Dead shows back in the early to mid 80's. I was born in '58, so I have some memory of the late 60's, but was a bit too young to really take part in what was going on. Sad to think how old those hippies are now if still alive. Heck, I'm getting up there myself.
If I had a time machine I would go to 1967 London, 1971 Los Angeles, 1977 NYC and 1991 Seattle.
Lol the red hair man in the tiny blue shorts 😂
Which band is this from 5:03 ?
jesus, it's not that hard to relate to young people
@Sam Smith and their children
The way you should relate to young people is to lay down God's law. That is what an adult should do. You're not their friend, you are their parents.
I remember the 1960s... I'm 62. I'm sure I'm guilty of it as well with other previous eras, but it's easy to think such modern ways were widespread: like today, the vast majority of people were just ordinary Joes, doing humdrum jobs and living in suits, ties and tweed skirts, etc.
That is so true. It is the media who made it look like a certain stereotypical way. The media is at fault for making people of that era, or any era, look as if they were all like that!
I need to know the name of the songs or names of all bands in this video please.
Its a beautyfull music
Facundo Millan Listen to the navigation and the names of the bands are there
Nice to see reporting that's actually fair towards those crazy youths even while catering to a viewership who likely couldn't relate to many of their views.
back when ppl was having fun without social media!! What a decade!!
What are you using to watch this??? A bowl of water??
omg everyone styled like our generation
in our parent´s cultures videos
ughh lol
Great documentary
Qué época tan increíble!!!!!!!!
Yoko at 0:54?
Ah the 60s. Pharmaceutical adventures aplenty.
Not everyone used drugs in the 1960s.
I rented a bedsit next to Ladbroke Grove tube for 3 pound a week!! Total income was 15 pound a week! 😊
People misinterpret "The 60s". Some have this romantic view that everyone was going around drugged, listening to zany music 20 hours a day and advocating free love and peace. It was an exciting time but mainly for the fact that - for the first time ever - the ordinary working Western youth had spare cash and were able to express themselves. They also had spare time for recreation and were given a voice for opinions that were previously distained. - This was groundbreaking. Women had availability of contraception and could have sex without the spectre of an unwanted pregnancy. Opprobrium for this lifestyle was no longer the issue
In short, the youth were unshackled.
Was this a good thing thing?
It depends on your perspective.. Possibly not. - Youth tends to be irresponsible and those velvet wearing baby boomers are now the progressive professors at universities, advocating anarchy.
If you put a cashed-up kid in a candy shop, don't be surprised if he eats a lot of candy.
Well said. Balance is the key.
Everything in moderation including moderation.
A very perceptive comment.
You just blew my mind far more than this '60s video did...
Based
Who, exactly, is advocating anarchy? Zip it, Pops.