what was it like to be a teenager in the 60s
A teenager in the 60s
Article by Robert Furnell
The early sixties for a young teenager was very much nigh Marks and Spencer dress (more how to avoid them!), eating plenty of fresh meat and vegetables (together with fried everything, chips, and lots of saccharide ), and unquestioned respect for parents, politicians, teachers, and the police.
Sport has, of form, always been popular down through the decades, and certainly was so, but pop music was of equal interest. The fifties had fabricated the record player (or if you could afford it a radiogram) and the attendant unbreakable single and LP record common entertainment in most homes. Youngsters such as myself contented ourselves with ownership singles by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc., getting LP'southward for birthdays and Christmas, commonly. Past 1963, parents all over the UK were "united" in yelling upward the stairs at firmly close bedroom doors : "Turn that bloody record player down!" The new stereo players were louder, with separate bass and treble controls, and did not distort at high book like the erstwhile mono machines.
Music was a teenage institution so, like computers and calculator games are now. There was Saturday Gild, and the Top Twoscore (Sunday afternoons) on the Light Programme (radio equivalent of Radio 1 back then), with Acme of the Pops and Thank Your Lucky Stars on Telly. Nobody missed those shows if they wanted to be thought "cool".
It is of import to note that many schoolkids were collecting records of Buddy Holly, American folk blues, and Bob Dylan. A class division in musical taste was emerging. Generally, it was the grammar school kids who went for the folk and blues, listening to Mike Raven'southward RnB Testify on a Sunday night, while the secondary school "teeny boppers" went for the Beatles, Billy J Kramer, and so on. This snobbishness was in proficient sense of humour, although at that place were some nasty battles between the multi-class Mods and Rockers for a while.
By 1966, music had diversified so much that it didn't matter what sort of school you went to, merely whether or non yous were into the latest music. In Southampton, people went to the Top Rank to dance to nautical chart records and see girl/boyfriends, to the Gaumont to watch the Beatles, R oy Orbison, etc., but to the Guildhall to run into strange new bands that played "psychedelic" music.
No one always knew whether to dance or lookout at the Guildhall ! I'll never forget when Jimi Hendrix played there in 1966. He launched into "Killing Flooring", and pairs of girls automatically started dancing round their handbags! All the lads rushed to stage, rapidly mesmerized by the phenomenal guitar playing of this nightmarishly-dressed "Santa" with enormous, wild hair.
The sixties was definitely a decade of two distinct halves, defined predominantly past popular music and musicians. By the end of the decade, guitarists regularly used special furnishings like distortion, wah-wah, and flange pedals, and anybody on phase and in the studio was experimenting with repeat repeat and multi-track recording.
At that place was so much music that the listener could not afford to buy information technology all! The open reel tape recorder, linked upwards to the radio and the record player was the solution. Yes, it was piracy, but no one seemed to recall of it that way back then. The near sophisticated domestic recorder, such as a Grundig or a Ferguson, had up to three speeds, and was capable of recording 4 tracks, and then you could get around 8 hours of music on i tape at the slowest speed. Finding private tracks took for ever!
And anybody had "stereo systems" by 1968 - the humble record player was not for the enthusiast. Seperate amp and deck, with a Wharfdale speaker on either side of the room. And, quadraphonic sound, requiring four speakers, appeared, but not many LPs were recorded in that format, so it never really took off.
Then the brusque-haired, neatly-suited lad of 1961, with his blackness and white two-channel boob tube, Dansette record player, and Raleigh touring cycle, had, by 1969, get a long-haired, flair-trousered hippy with three-channel colour telly, big stereo and record collection, planning to get an erstwhile VW or Mini, and mayhap one of those new tape cassette players people were talking about.
The signpost for the stop of the first one-half, and the kickoff of a very different second one-half, appeared, appropriately, in April, 1965, when Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" entered the tiptop ten. Never earlier had a popular vocal had such an original championship, or such complex, literary lyrics. It changed the style immature people thought of pop music, the way they approached most things, particularly convention.
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