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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'engle

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

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A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1960s

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Some books are flashes in the pan, read for entertainment and then left on a bus seat for the next lucky person to pick up and enjoy, forgotten by most after their season has passed. Others stick a…

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The Laser

Halogen Lamp

Valium

Audio Cassette

The LED

Computer Mouse

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The Sixties have been described by historians as the ten years having the most significant changes in history. By the end of the 60's humanity had entered the spaceage by putting a man on the moon. The 1960's were influenced by the youth of the post-war baby boom - a generation with a fondness for change and far-out gadgets.

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The Sixties have been described by historians as the ten years having the most significant changes in history. By the end of the 60's humanity had entered the spaceage by putting a man on the moon. The 1960's were influenced by the youth of the post-war baby boom - a generation with a fondness for change and far-out gadgets.

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1. John Wayne

2. Doris Day

3. Elizabeth Taylor

4. Cary Grant

5. Rock Hudson

6. Jack Lemmon

7. Paul Newman

8. Julie Andrews

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Lipton Onion Soup Dip

Desserts and Salads Encased in Gelatin

Meatballs with Grape Jelly

Chicken à la King

Fondue

Stuffed Celery and Cherry Tomatoes

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This week we're talking about recipes that define a decade, starting with the 1960s. Made more popular in the last few years from Mad Men, the recipes of the 60s are defined by strange chicken dishes, the continued domination of Jell-O and other fluff desserts, cocktail party appetizers like onion dip (seen above), and of course anything Julia Child. Some of these recipes remain relevant in recent decades, but they will always have a strong history in the 60s.

What are your favorite recipes from the 1960s? Here are the ten we think really defined the decade.

Onion dip was wildly popular in the 1960s, especially a recipe that called for the addition of Lipton onion soup mix. (Our recipe pictured above is a healthier, non-mix recipe.)

2. Desserts and Salads Encased in Gelatin

Jell-O continued its domination in the 1960s. Newer and stranger desserts and salads were encased in gelatin molds.

3. Meatballs with Grape Jelly

Meatballs with sweet sauces, like the iconic Swedish meatballs in grape jelly, became more popular in the 60s.

This dish consists of diced chicken and vegetables (peas and carrots) in a cream sauce.

Cheese and meat fondues were introduced to the United States earlier than the 60s, but they really took off in this decade.

6. Stuffed Celery and Cherry Tomatoes

An easy, semi-elegant appetizer to serve with cocktails.

7. Stuffed Crescent Rolls as in "Pigs in a Blanket" and Asparagus Rollups

Cocktail parties and anything in a can were popular in the 1960s, so obviously these appetizers were all the rage.

Julia Child's TV show "The French Chef" premiered in 1963, and beef bourguignon promptly took off.

This simple appetizer is totally timeless, but it was heavily associated with the fine dining centers of the decade - the steakhouse.

Did we leave anything off?

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This week we're talking about recipes that define a decade, starting with the 1960s. Made more popular in the last few years from Mad Men, the recipes of the 60s are defined by strange chicken dishes, the continued domination of Jell-O and other fluff desserts, cocktail party appetizers like onion dip (seen above), and of course anything Julia Child.

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Etch A Sketch

Spacewar

Easy-Bake Oven

Super Ball

Chatty Cathy

Barbie's Dream House

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10 most wanted Christmas toys of the 1960s

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All we wanted were small kitchen appliances and lifelike dolls.

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Psycho 1960
The Sound of Music 1965
West Side Story 1961
Mary Poppins 1964
Bonnie and Clyde 1967
Night of the Living Dead 1968
A Hard Day's Night 1964
Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961
The Magnificent Seven 1960

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The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand

Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love

Aretha Franklin - Respect

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This article includes an overview of the events and trends in popular music in the 1960s.

In North America and Europe the decade was particularly revolutionary in terms of popular music, as it saw the evolution of rock. At the beginning of the 1960s, pop and rock and roll trends of the 1950s continued; nevertheless, the rock and roll of the decade before started to merge into a more international, eclectic variant. In the early-1960s, rock and roll in its purest form was gradually overtaken by pop rock, beat, psychedelic rock, blues rock, and folk rock, which had grown in popularity. The [ [country music|country]]- and folk-influenced style associated with the latter half of 1960s rock music spawned a generation of popular singersongwriters who wrote and performed their own work. Towards the decade's end, genres such as Baroque pop, sunshine pop, bubblegum pop, and progressive rock started to grow popular, with the latter two finding greater success in the following decade. Furthermore, the 1960s saw funk and soul music rising in popularity; rhythm and blues in general remained popular. The fusion of R&B, Gospel -and original rock and roll was a success until the mid-part of the decade. Aside from the popularity of rock and R&B music in the 1960s, Latin American as well as Jamaican and Cuban music achieved a degree of popularity throughout the decade, with genres such as Bossa nova, the cha-cha-cha, ska, and calypso being popular. From a classical point of view, the 1960s were also an important decade as they saw the development of electronic, experimental, jazz and contemporary classical music, notably minimalism and free improvisation.

In Asia, various trends marked the popular music of the 1960s. In Japan, the decade saw the rise in popularity of several Western popular music groups such as The Beatles. The success of rock music and bands in Japan started a new genre, known as Group Sounds, which was popular in the latter half of the decade.

In South America, genres such as bossa nova, Nueva canción and Nueva ola started to rise. Rock music began leaving its mark, and achieved success in the 1960s. Additionally, salsa grew popular towards the end of the decade. In the 1960s cumbia entered Chile and left a long-lasting impact on tropical music in that country.

The United Kingdom (U.K)

In the late 1950s, a flourishing culture of groups began to emerge, often out of the declining skiffle scene, in major urban centres in the UK like Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and London. This was particularly true in Liverpool, where it has been estimated that there were around 350 different bands active, often playing ballrooms, concert halls and clubs. Beat bands were heavily influenced by American bands of the era, such as Buddy Holly and the Crickets (from which group the Beatles derived their name), as well as earlier British groups such as the Shadows. After the national success of the Beatles in Britain from 1962, a number of Liverpool performers were able to follow them into the charts, including Cilla Black, Gerry and the Pacemakers and the Searchers. Among the most successful beat acts from Birmingham were the Spencer Davis Group and the Moody Blues. From London, the term Tottenham Sound was largely based around the Dave Clark Five, but other London bands that benefited from the beat boom of this era included the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds and the Kinks. The first non- Liverpool, non- Brian Epstein-managed band to break through in the UK were Freddie and the Dreamers, who were based in Manchester, as were Herman's Hermits. The beat movement provided most of the groups responsible for the British Invasion of the American pop charts in the period after 1964, and furnished the model for many important developments in pop and rock music.

By the end of 1962, the British rock scene had started with beat groups like the Beatles drawing on a wide range of American influences including soul music, rhythm and blues and surf music. Initially, they reinterpreted standard American tunes, playing for dancers doing the twist, for example. These groups eventually infused their original rock compositions with increasingly complex musical ideas and a distinctive sound. In mid-1962 the Rolling Stones started as one of a number of groups increasingly showing blues influence, along with bands like the Animals and the Yardbirds. During 1963, the Beatles and other beat groups, such as the Searchers and the Hollies, achieved great popularity and commercial success in Britain itself.

British rock broke through to mainstream popularity in the United States in January 1964 with the success of the Beatles. " I Want to Hold Your Hand" was the band's first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, starting the British Invasion of the American music charts. The song entered the chart on January 18, 1964, at No. 45 before it became the No. 1 single for 7 weeks and went on to last a total of 15 weeks in the chart. Their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show February 9 is considered a milestone in American pop culture. The broadcast drew an estimated 73 million viewers, at the time a record for an American television program. The Beatles went on to become the biggest selling rock band of all time and they were followed by numerous British bands.

During the next two years, Chad & Jeremy, Peter and Gordon, the Animals, Manfred Mann, Petula Clark, Freddie and the Dreamers, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Herman's Hermits, the Rolling Stones, the Troggs, and Donovan would have one or more No. 1 singles. Other acts that were part of the invasion included the Kinks and the Dave Clark Five. British Invasion acts also dominated the music charts at home in the United Kingdom.

The British Invasion helped internationalize the production of rock and roll, opening the door for subsequent British (and Irish) performers to achieve international success. In America it arguably spelled the end of instrumental surf music, vocal girl groups and (for a time) the teen idols, that had dominated the American charts in the late 1950s and '60s. It dented the careers of established R&B acts like Fats Domino and Chubby Checker and even temporarily derailed the chart success of surviving rock and roll acts, including Elvis Presley. The British Invasion also played a major part in the rise of a distinct genre of rock music, and cemented the primacy of the rock group, based on guitars and drums and producing their own material as singer-songwriters.

In parallel with Beat music, in the late 1950s and early 1960s a British blues scene was developing recreating the sounds of American R&B and later particularly the sounds of bluesmen Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters. It reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s, when it developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar and made international stars of several proponents of the genre including the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, the Yardbirds, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin.

A number of these moved through blues rock to different forms of rock music and as a result British blues helped to form many of the subgenres of rock, including psychedelic rock and heavy metal music. Since then direct interest in the blues in Britain has declined, but many of the key performers have returned to it in recent years, new acts have emerged and there have been a renewed interest in the genre.

British psychedelia emerged during the mid-1960s, was influenced by psychedelic culture and attempted to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. The movement drew on non-Western sources such as Indian music's ragas and sitars as well as studio effects and long instrumental passages and surreal lyrics. Established British artists such as Eric Burdon, the Who, Cream, Pink Floyd and the Beatles produced a number of highly psychedelic tunes during the decade. Many British psychedelia bands of the 1960s never published their music and only appeared in live concerts during that time.

North America (U.S.A)

The Kingston Trio, the Weavers, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Judy Collins, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Carolyn Hester, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Rush, Fred Neil, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia, Arlo Guthrie and several other performers were instrumental in launching the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s.

Roy Orbison was one of rock's famous artists who wrote ballads of lost love.

In the early part of the decade, Elvis Presley continued to score hits. For most of the 60s, Presley mostly released films. Presley decided to get away from films by 1969; his last #1 song on the charts was Suspicious Minds which was released in 1969.

By the 1960s, the scene that had developed out of the American folk music revival had grown to a major movement, utilizing traditional music and new compositions in a traditional style, usually on acoustic instruments. In America the genre was pioneered by figures such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger and often identified with progressive or labour politics. In the early sixties figures such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez had come to the fore in this movement as singer-songwriters. Dylan had begun to reach a mainstream audience with hits including " Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and " Masters of War" (1963), which brought " protest songs" to a wider public, but, although beginning to influence each other, rock and folk music had remained largely separate genres, often with mutually exclusive audiences. Early attempts to combine elements of folk and rock included the Animals " House of the Rising Sun" (1964), which was the first commercially successful folk song to be recorded with rock and roll instrumentation. The folk rock movement is usually thought to have taken off with the Byrds' recording of Dylan's " Mr. Tambourine Man" which topped the charts in 1965. With members who had been part of the cafe-based folk scene in Los Angeles, the Byrds adopted rock instrumentation, including drums and 12-string Rickenbacker guitars, which became a major element in the sound of the genre. By the mid-'60s Bob Dylan took the lead in merging folk and rock, and in July '65, released Like a Rolling Stone, with a revolutionary rock sound, steeped in tawdry urban imagery, followed by an electric performance later that month at the Newport Folk Festival. Dylan plugged an entire generation into the milieu of the singer-songwriter, often writing from an urban point of view, with poetry punctuated by rock rhythms and electric power. By the mid to late '60s, bands and singer-songwriters began to proliferate the underground New York art/music scene.

The release of The Velvet Underground & Nico in 1967, featuring singer-songerwriter Lou Reed and German singer and collaborator Nico was described as "most prophetic rock album ever made" by Rolling Stone in 2003. Other New York City based singer songerwriters began to emerge, using the urban landscape as their canvass for lyrics in the confessional style of poets like Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. In July, 1969, Newsweek magazine ran a feature story, "The Girls-Letting Go," describing the groundbreaking music of Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Lotti Golden and Melanie, as a new breed of female troubadour: "What is common to them are the personalized songs they write, like voyages of self discovery, brimming with keen observation and startling in the impact of their poetry." The work of these early New York based singer-songwriters, from Laura Nyro's New York Tendaberry (1969), to Lotti Golden's East Village diaries on Motor-Cycle her 1969 debut on Atlantic Records, has served as inspiration to generations of female singer-songwriters in the rock, folk and jazz traditions. Dylan's adoptation of electric instruments, much to the outrage of many folk purists, with his " Like a Rolling Stone" succeeded in creating a new genre. Folk rock particularly took off in California, where it led acts like the Mamas & the Papas and Crosby, Stills and Nash to move to electric instrumentation, and in New York, where it spawned singer-songwriters and performers including the Lovin' Spoonful and Simon and Garfunkel, with the latter's acoustic " The Sounds of Silence" being remixed with rock instruments to be the first of many hits.

Folk rock reached its peak of commercial popularity in the period 1967-68, before many acts moved off in a variety of directions, including Dylan and the Byrds, who began to develop country rock. However, the hybridization of folk and rock has been seen as having a major influence on the development of rock music, bringing in elements of psychedelia, and in particular, helping to develop the ideas of the singer-songwriter, the protest song and concepts of "authenticity".

Psychedelic music's LSD-inspired vibe began in the folk scene, with the New York-based Holy Modal Rounders using the term in their 1964 recording of " Hesitation Blues". The first group to advertise themselves as psychedelic rock were the 13th Floor Elevators from Texas, at the end of 1965; producing an album that made their direction clear, with The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators the following year.

Psychedelic rock particularly took off in California's emerging music scene as groups followed the Byrds from folk to folk rock from 1965. The Los Angeles-based group the Doors formed in 1965 after a chance meeting on Venice Beach. Although its charismatic lead singer Jim Morrison died in 1971, the band's popularity has endured to this day. The psychedelic life style had already developed in San Francisco since about 1964, and particularly prominent products of the scene were the Grateful Dead, Country Joe and the Fish, the Great Society and Jefferson Airplane. The Byrds rapidly progressed from purely folk rock in 1966 with their single " Eight Miles High", widely taken[by whom? ] to be a reference to drug use.

Psychedelic rock reached its apogee in the last years of the decade. In America the Summer of Love was prefaced by the Human Be-In event and reached its peak at the Monterey Pop Festival, the latter helping to make major American stars of Jimi Hendrix and the Who, whose single " I Can See for Miles" delved into psychedelic territory. Key recordings included Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow and the Doors' Strange Days. These trends climaxed in the 1969 Woodstock Festival, which saw performances by most of the major psychedelic acts, but by the end of the decade psychedelic rock was in retreat. The Jimi Hendrix Experience broke up before the end of the decade and many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into more back-to-basics "roots rock", the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff laden heavy rock.

In the early 1960s, one of the most popular forms of rock and roll was Surf Rock, which was characterized by being nearly entirely instrumental and by heavy use of reverb on the guitars. The spring reverb featured in Fender amplifiers of the day, cranked to its maximum volume, produced a guitar tone shimmering with sustain and evoking surf and ocean imagery.

Duane Eddy's "Movin' and Groovin" is thought by many to be the main contender for laying the groundwork as the first surf rock record, while others claim the genre was invented by Dick Dale on " Let's Go Trippin'", which became a hit throughout California. Most early surf bands were formed during this decade in the Southern California area. By the mid-1960s the Beach Boys, who used complex pop harmonies over a basic surf rock rhythm, had emerged as the dominant surf group and helped popularize the genre. in hits like Surfin' U.S.A. In addition, bands such as the Ventures, the Shadows, the Atlantics, the Surfaris and the Champs were also among the most popular Surf Rock bands of the decade.

Garage rock was a raw form of rock music, particularly prevalent in North America in the mid-1960s and is called such because of the perception that many of the bands rehearsed in a suburban family garage. Garage rock songs often revolved around the traumas of high school life, with songs about "lying girls" being particularly common. The lyrics and delivery were notably more aggressive than was common at the time, often with growled or shouted vocals that dissolved into incoherent screaming such as the influential Washington based band, The Sonics. They ranged from crude one-chord music (like the Seeds) to near-studio musician quality (including the Knickerbockers, the Remains, and the Fifth Estate). There were also regional variations in many parts of the country with flourishing scenes particularly in California and Texas. The Pacific Northwest states of Washington and Oregon had perhaps the most defined regional sound.

The style had been evolving from regional scenes as early as 1958. " Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen (1963) is a mainstream example of the genre in its formative stages. By 1963, garage band singles were creeping into the national charts in greater numbers, including Paul Revere and the Raiders (Boise), the Trashmen (Minneapolis) and the Rivieras (South Bend, Indiana). In this early period many bands were heavily influenced by surf rock and there was a cross-pollination between garage rock and frat rock, sometimes viewed as merely a subgenre of garage rock.

The British Invasion of 1964-66 greatly influenced garage bands, providing them with a national audience, leading many (often surf or hot rod groups) to adopt a British Invasion lilt, and encouraging many more groups to form. Thousands of garage bands were extant in the USA and Canada during the era and hundreds produced regional hits. Despite scores of bands being signed to major or large regional labels, most were commercial failures. It is generally agreed that garage rock peaked both commercially and artistically around 1966. By 1968 the style largely disappeared from the national charts and at the local level as amateur musicians faced college, work or the draft. New styles had evolved to replace garage rock (including blues-rock, progressive rock and country rock). In Detroit garage rock stayed alive until the early '70s, with bands like the MC5 and the Stooges, who employed a much more aggressive style. These bands began to be labelled punk rock and are now often seen as proto-punk or proto- hard rock.

The American blues-rock had been pioneered in the early 1960s by guitarist Lonnie Mack, but the genre began to take off in the mid-'60s as acts followed developed a sound similar to British blues musicians. Key acts included Paul Butterfield (whose band acted like Mayall's Bluesbreakers in Britain as a starting point for many successful musicians), Canned Heat, the early Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, the J. Geils Band and Jimi Hendrix with his power trios, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys, whose guitar virtuosity and showmanship would be among the most emulated of the decade. Blues-rock bands like Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and eventually ZZ Top from the southern states, incorporated country elements into their style to produce distinctive Southern rock.

Roots rock is the term now used to describe a move away from the excesses of the psychedelic scene, to a more basic form of rock and roll that incorporated its original influences, particularly country and folk music, leading to the creation of country rock and Southern rock. In 1966, Bob Dylan spearheaded the movement when he went to Nashville to record the album Blonde on Blonde. This, and subsequent more clearly country-influenced albums, have been seen as creating the genre of country folk, a route pursued by a number of, largely acoustic, folk musicians. Other acts that followed the back-to-basics trend were the group the Band and the Californian-based Creedence Clearwater Revival, both of which mixed basic rock and roll with folk, country and blues, to be among the most successful and influential bands of the late 1960s. The same movement saw the beginning of the recording careers of Californian solo artists like Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt and Lowell George, and influenced the work of established performers such as the Rolling Stones' Beggar's Banquet (1968) and the Beatles' (1970).

In 1968, Gram Parsons recorded Safe at Home with the International Submarine Band, arguably the first true country rock album. Later that year he joined the Byrds for Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968), generally considered one of the most influential recordings in the genre. The Byrds continued in the same vein, but Parsons left to be joined by another ex-Byrds member Chris Hillman in forming the Flying Burrito Brothers who helped establish the respectability and parameters of the genre, before Parsons departed to pursue a solo career. Country rock was particularly popular in the Californian music scene, where it was adopted by bands including Hearts & Flowers, Poco and Riders of the Purple Sage, the Beau Brummels and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. A number of performers also enjoyed a renaissance by adopting country sounds, including: the Everly Brothers; one-time teen idol Ricky Nelson who became the frontman for the Stone Canyon Band; former Monkee Mike Nesmith who formed the First National Band; and Neil Young. The Dillards were, unusually, a country act, who moved towards rock music. The greatest commercial success for country rock came in the 1970s, with artist including the Doobie Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles (made up of members of the Burritos, Poco and Stone Canyon Band), who emerged as one of the most successful rock acts of all time, producing albums that included Hotel California (1976).

The founders of Southern rock are usually thought to be the Allman Brothers Band, who developed a distinctive sound, largely derived from blues rock, but incorporating elements of boogie, soul and country in the early 1970s. The most successful act to follow them were Lynyrd Skynyrd, who helped establish the " good ol' boy" image of the subgenre and the general shape of 1970s guitar rock. Their successors included the fusion/progressive instrumentalists Dixie Dregs, the more country-influenced Outlaws, jazz-leaning Wet Willie and (incorporating elements of R&B and gospel) the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. After the loss of original members of the Allmans and Lynyrd Skynyrd, the genre began to fade in popularity in the late 1970s, but was sustained the 1980s with acts like .38 Special, Molly Hatchet and the Marshall Tucker Band.

Progressive rock, sometimes used interchangeably with art rock, was an attempt to move beyond established musical formulas by experimenting with different instruments, song types and forms. From the mid-1960s the Left Banke, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys, had pioneered the inclusion of harpsichords, wind and string sections on their recordings to produce a form of Baroque rock and can be heard in singles like Procol Harum's " A Whiter Shade of Pale" (1967), with its Bach inspired introduction. The Moody Blues used a full orchestra on their album Days of Future Passed (1967) and subsequently created orchestral sounds with synthesisers. Classical orchestration, keyboards and synthesisers were a frequent edition to the established rock format of guitars, bass and drums in subsequent progressive rock.

Instrumentals were common, while songs with lyrics were sometimes conceptual, abstract or based in fantasy and science fiction. The Pretty Things' (1968) and the Who's (1969) introduced the format of rock operas and opened the door to " concept albums, usually telling an epic story or tackling a grand overarching theme." King Crimson's 1969 début album, In the Court of the Crimson King, which mixed powerful guitar riffs and mellotron, with jazz and symphonic music, is often taken as the key recording in progressive rock, helping the widespread adoption of the genre in the early 1970s among existing blues-rock and psychedelic bands, as well as newly formed acts.

Chubby Checker during the early 1960s popularizes the enduring dance craze the Twist with his hit cover of Hank Ballard & the Midnighters' R&B hit " The Twist".

Gerry Goffin and Carole King become a very influential duo in pop music, writing numerous number-one hits including the first song to ever reach number-one by a girl group, the Shirelles " Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and the 1962 number-one hit, " The Loco-Motion" which was performed by Little Eva.

" Sugar Sugar" becomes a big hit for The Archies, defining the bubblegum pop genre.

The Monkees were a made for TV band, inspired by the antics of the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night. Under contractual reasons, the group were not allowed to play their own instruments, which led to many feuds between the bandmates and music supervisor, Don Kirshner.

R&B and soul music

The Detroit-based Motown label develops as a pop-influenced answer to soul music. The label begins a long run of No. 1 U.S. hit singles in 1961 with "Please Mr. Postman" by the Marvelettes. The label would have numerous No. 1 Billboard hits throughout the decade and into the 1990s. Notable Motown acts included the Supremes, the Miracles, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye and the Jackson Five, who debuted in 1969.

Soul music develops popularity throughout the decade, led by Sam Cooke, James Brown and Otis Redding, among many others.

Funk begins later in the decade with James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone having early hits.

"You Keep Me Hanging On" uses a fast tempo which would prove innovative in the development of disco music.

Aretha Franklin's 1967 recordings, such as "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "Respect" (originally sung by Otis Redding), and "Do Right Woman-Do Right Man", are considered the apogee of the soul genre, and were among its most commercially successful productions.

Triumph and great tragedy marked the 1960s in country music. The genre continued to gain national exposure through network television, with weekly series and awards programs gaining popularity. Sales of records continued to rise as new artists and trends came to the forefront. However, several top stars died under tragic circumstances, including several who were killed in plane crashes.

The predominant musical style during the decade was the Nashville Sound, a style that emphasized string sections, background vocals, crooning lead vocals and production styles seen in country music. The style had first become popular in the late 1950s, in response to the growing encroachment of rock and roll on the country genre, but saw its greatest success in the 1960s. Artists like Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold, Ray Price, Patsy Cline, Floyd Cramer, Roger Miller and many others achieved great success through songs such as " He'll Have to Go," " Danny Boy," " Make the World Go Away", " King of the Road" and " I Fall to Pieces." The country-pop style was also evident on the 1962 album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, recorded by rhythm and blues and soul singer Ray Charles. Charles recorded covers of traditional country, folk and classical music standards in pop, R&B and jazz styles. The album was hailed as a critical and commercial success, and would be vastly influential in later country music styles. Songs from the album that were released for commercial airplay and record sales included " I Can't Stop Loving You," "Born to Lose" and " You Don't Know Me."

By the end of the decade, the Nashville Sound became more polished and streamlined, and became known as "countrypolitan." Tammy Wynette, Glen Campbell, Dottie West and Charley Pride were among the top artists adopting this style. While George Jones - by the early 1960s one of country music's most consistent hitmakers - also recorded countrypolitan-styled music, his background remained pure honky tonk, singing of heartbreak and loneliness in many of his songs. Also, Marty Robbins proved to be one of the genre's most diverse singers, singing everything from straight-ahead country to western to pop to blues ... and even Hawaiian.

Johnny Cash-who became known as "The Man in Black"-became one of the most influential musicians of the 1960s (and eventually, 20th century). Although primarily recording country, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly, blues, folk and gospel. His music showed great compassion for minorities and others who were shunned by society, including prison inmates. Two of Cash's most successful albums were recorded live in prison: At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin.

During the latter half of the 1960s, Pride - a native of Sledge, Mississippi - became the first African-American superstar in country music, a genre virtually dominated by white artists. Some of his early hits, sang with a smooth baritone voice and in a style meshing honky-tonk and countrypolitan, included "Just Between You and Me," "The Easy Part's Over," " All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)" and a cover version of Hank Williams' " Kaw-Liga." Pride continued to be successful for more than 20 years, amassing an eventual 29 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

A newly emerging style, which had its roots in the 1950s but exploded in the mainstream during the 1960s, was the " Bakersfield sound." Instead of creating a sound similar to mainstream pop music, the Bakersfield sound used honky tonk as its base and added electric instruments and a backbeat, plus stylistic elements borrowed from rock and roll. Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and Wynn Stewart were some of the top artists adopting this sound, and by the late 1960s they were among country music's top selling artists.

Among female acts, the most successful of the lot were Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton. Lynn, a native of Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, and indeed, the daughter of a coal miner, would-with the help of her husband, Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn-gain a recording contract with Zero Records in 1960, and while only her first single ("Honky Tonk Girl") of her early 1960s releases charted, her early recordings were the springboard for much bigger and better things to come. By the latter half of the decade, and continuing into the 1970s, she was recording songs that defied the stereotype of the woman who had to put up with men, their hard drinking, philandering and other negative traits-for instance, " Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)"-as well as songs that pushed the genre's conservative boundaries ("Dear Uncle Sam," a song about the Vietnam War) and her willingness to stand up to other women (" You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)").

Parton, a native of the Smoky Mountains town of Locust Ridge, Tennessee, gained national exposure on the nationally syndicated program The Porter Wagoner Show, on which she began appearing in 1967. Two years earlier, she had signed a recording contract with Monument Records and was pushed as a bubblegum pop singer, but had only minor success before one of her compositions - "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" - became a big hit for Bill Phillips (a track which Parton provided backing vocals) in 1966. Eventually, her mountain-influenced, biographical brand of country and her down-home personality won many fans, and her star power would only begin to rise. Her first major hits were mainly duets with Wagoner, although she had several solo hits-including her breakthrough, "Dumb Blonde"-as well.

Wynette gained acclaim with unique perspectives on the classic themes of loneliness, divorce, and the difficulties of life and relationships, illustrated by songs such as " I Don't Wanna Play House" and " D-I-V-O-R-C-E." However, it was " Stand By Your Man," a song pledging of unyielding faithfulness and standing by men despite their shortcomings, that gave Wynette her career hit. By the late 1960s, she was married to fellow country music singer George Jones.

Among other female newcomers, Connie Smith was among the most successful, as her breakthrough hit, " Once a Day" spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in late 1964 and early 1965, the longest-running chart-topper for nearly 50 years. During a career that has spanned 50-plus years, Smith's songs often explored themes of loneliness and vulnerability.

In addition to the syndicated The Porter Wagoner Show, several other television programs were produced to allow country music to reach a wider audience, such as The Jimmy Dean Show in mid-decade. At the end of the decade, began a 23-year run, first on CBS and later in syndication; Hee Haw, hosted by Owens and Roy Clark was loosely based on the comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh In, and incorporated comedy along with performances by the show's cast or guest performers from the country music field. The Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association awards programs were telecast for the first time in the late 1960s.

The 1960s were marred with tragedy. Johnny Horton, who sang in the saga-song style, was killed in a car accident in 1960. A March 5, 1963, plane crash claimed the lives of Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins. Days later, Jack Anglin was killed in a car accident, while Texas Ruby died in a trailer fire in Texas. In July 1964, Jim Reeves lost his life while piloting a plane near Brentwood, Tennessee. Ira Louvin (one half of the Louvin Brothers) was killed in a car accident in 1965. Success overcame several of those tragic deaths, as both Cline and Reeves had many posthumous hits (with previously recorded songs issued after their deaths) and enjoyed strong followings for many years, while Louvin's brother, Charlie, continued as a successful solo performer for more than 40 years. Other pioneering stars who died during the 1960s included A.P. Carter, Gid Tanner, Moon Mullican, Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, Red Foley, Leon Payne and Spade Cooley.

The 1960s began a trend toward a proliferation of No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, thanks to ever-changing data collecting methods. When the 1960s decade opened, there were but four No. 1 songs topping the chart (five, if one counts Marty Robbins' " El Paso"), but by the mid-1960s, there were always at least a dozen songs topping the chart annually. In 1967, there were more than 20 songs reaching the top spot for the first time ever in a single calendar year ... and that number would only continue to rise during the next 20 years.

Latin America, Spain and Brazil

This Brazilian musical style, which means "New Trend", had its origins in the upscale neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro. Immensely popular in the early 1960s, it was a fusion of samba and cool jazz. Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, and Vinicius de Moraes became some of the best known artists of the Bossa Nova movement. The latter's The Girl From Ipanema, released in 1964, became the first Bossa Nova song to achieve international acclaim. In 1965, it won a Grammy Award for Best Record of the Year. Another prominent Latin pop group was Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66. Their songs included Mas Que Nada, The Joker, and Agua de Beber. In 1966 the group was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Performance by a Duo or Musical Group. They eventually became Sergio Mendes and Brazil '77, and continued playing their brand of Latin pop into that decade.

It was during the 60s that rock music began to gain acclaim in Latin America. In Spanish speaking South America musicians who adopted US and British inspired rock, mainly rock and roll, twist and British Invasion music, were collectively labelled as Nueva ola (Spanish for "New Wave"). Argentina, having his own Rock and Roll and British Invasion inspired bands and artist, Sandro de América, Sandro y Los de Fuego, Johnny Allon, Los Gatos Salvajes, Los Beatniks, Los Buhos, among others. suffered the Uruguayan Invasion, a series of British Invasion inspired rock bands from Montevideo that moved to Buenos Aires and soon became popular in Argentina Los Shakers, Los Mockers, Los Iracundos. Rock music was during the 60s still largely sung in English, but some bands like Los Mac's and others mentioned above used Spanish for their songs as well. During the 1960s, most of the music produced in Mexico consisted on Spanish-language versions of English-language rock-and-roll hits. Singers and musical groups like Angelica Maria, César Costa, Enrique Guzmán performed cover versions of songs by Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra, Paul Anka and others.

Nueva canción

During the 1960s Nueva Canción emerges and starts to expand its influence. This development is pioneered by the Chileans Violeta Parra and Victor Jara who base many of their songs in folklore, specially cueca. Nueva Canción spreads quickly all over Latin America and becomes closely related to the New Left and the Liberation theology movements. In Francisco Franco's Spain Joan Manuel Serrat reaches widespread notability as an exponent of Nueva Canción and of the political opposition.

Even though salsa music began to take form in a New York scene dominated by Cubans and other Latin American communities, Salsa would not become popular all across Latin America until the late 1980s and is now here today.

Astor Piazzola won the First Ibero American Music Festival in 1966 with the song "Balada para un loco", that launched him worldwide introducing his New Tango style Nuevo Tango

Música cebolla

Música cebolla, a style of music loaded with sentimentality, had its heydays in Chile dispite being derided or ignored by mass media.

The 1960s saw increasing interest in how electronic music could solve both compositional and more practical problems. Composers were also absorbing ideas from overseas, such as indeterminacy and electro-acoustic music, and interpreting them in an Australian context to mixed responses from local audiences.

Early in the decade, Bruce Clarke began toying with the new Moog synthesizer. A musicians' strike led him to create a completely electronic soundtrack for a cigarette commercial in 1963. Innovative film makers, like Arthur Cantrill and Dušan Marek, employed tape manipulation, turntables and extended instrument techniques to create soundtracks for their short films. Avowed amateur and Melbourne physician, Val Stephen, became the first Australian to have electronic music released internationally.

After working among the musical avant-garde in Paris, Keith Humble's return to Australia helped to encourage educational institutions to take electronic music seriously. Humble's most notably experimental work was his Nunique series. These vast multimedia events featured simultaneous performances by rock bands, string quartets and theatre ensembles, all according to precise flowcharts.

Humble initiated the Melbourne-based Society for the Private Performance of New Music in 1966, providing a supportive performance space for young innovators both in and outside the academy. Among these were the McKimm/Rooney/Clayton trio, who, since the 1964, had been incorporating graphic scores and aspects of serialism into jazz improvization. Jazz was radicalizing at the fringes: John Sangster explored free jazz concepts and Charlie Munro incorporated Eastern musical elements. Syd Clayton would leave jazz behind in pursuit of a new form of experimental music theatre that incorporated chance operations along with sports and games as musical structures.

Young composers, like David Ahern, emerged, initially inspired by ideas of the European avant-garde, and applying them to Australian icons, such as Captain Cook and Ned Kelly. Ahern would travel to Europe later in the 1960s, where he encountered Stockhausen and Cardew, before returning home with further more radical ideas that questioned the very premises of composer and music itself.

It's difficult to gauge the lasting impact of 1960s music in popular culture. A 2010 European survey conducted by the digital broadcaster Music Choice, interviewing over 11,000 participants, rated the decade rather low, with only 19% declaring it the best tune decade in the last 50 years, while participants of an American land line survey rated the 1960s a bit higher, with 26% declaring it as best decade in music.

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This article includes an overview of the events and trends in popular music in the 1960s . In North America and Europe the decade was particularly revolutionary in terms of popular music, as it saw the evolution of rock.

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All show and no go: Looks good superficially.

Ankle biter: a baby/small kid.

Bogart: To keep everything for yourself.

Bug: To bother.

Chop: To cut someone down verbally.

Chrome dome: Bald man.

Cool head: Nice guy.

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If it's boss, hip, or happening, you're bound to be listening to some of the slang from the 1960s that still resounds in today's language. As you read this list of 1960s slang, you might be surprised to find out how much of it has lasted through the decades.

Hey, Man! That's Boss!

Back in this turbulent decade, you might expand upon the word "cool" with a word like "boss." That means something is really, really cool.

Among the 1960s hipster contingent, their lingo included phrases to describe superlative experiences:

Something that was wonderful would be "outta sight" (so great or unbelievable, you just couldn't take it all in.)

If something like a musical group was exciting and fantastic, they would be called "fab."

Having the latest and newest of anything, then as now, is of extreme importance to those who are truly hip.

If an event was "righteous," it was fantastic.

If a concert was "groovy," it was both outta sight and cool.

In the dating arena (or "scene" to a teenager in the 1960s):

Maybe the problem was with your bread. No, we're not talking whole wheat or rye here, we're talking about "bread" as a 1960s term for money. A lack of bread would be enough to bum anyone out!

Since being cool was of such importance, the worst thing to happen to you (maybe aside from lacking bread) was to be labeled as uncool or "square."

List of 1960s Slang Definitions

Learning about slang from different eras can transport you to a different time in your life or introduce you to a whole new style of language. Here's a selection of 1960s slang for you to get acquainted (or reacquainted!) with.

Slang for Cars

Fast cars and fast lives. The '60s were an era of rebellion so, to no surprise, that means some exciting car lingo. Let's take a look:

Slang for Experiences

Just like today, life in the '60s was full of the good, the bad, and the ugly. Here are some of the most popular expressions used to provide commentary on various experiences:

Slang for People

If there's one thing people have in common, it's opinions about others. Here are some of the more unique ways "hunks" and "skirts" talked about other people during this time:

Slang for Places

The people of the '60s were full of opinions about their surroundings too. Here are some of the ways they referred to "groovy" spots around town:

Bean wagon: Cheap restaurant, or a lowered car driven by Mexican Americans

Grungy: Looking shabby or dirty

Groovy: Outstanding or nice

Pad: Where you sleep or live, your home

Sponge: Live off of someone else

Slang for Things

People, places, and things. Below, you'll find some unique terminology to describe things, from boob tubes to peggers.

Hip to the Hippies

Do some of these slang words and expressions look familiar to you, even if you weren't around in the 1960s? Well, that's quite possible! Some of these expressions came back to life in later decades, and some of them really never faded from use at all. For example, many people today still use the word "zit" and the phrase "bugging out" and probably don't even know how long they've been around.

For more on that, enjoy this overview of American Slang Words.

Girl dressed as a 1960s hippie as 1960s slang

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The 1960s was an iconic decade that gave rise to a lot of interesting slang words, some of which we still use today. Read on to see what was "cool" on the "scene" with this long list of 1960s slang.

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The Andy Griffith Show (1960)

Bewitched (1964)

Gilligan's Island (1964)

The Dick Van Dyke Show(1961)

Batman (1966)

I Dream of Jeannie (1965)

The Munsters (1964)

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List of the best television programs from the 1960s, as ranked by television fans. It was in the 60s that television first began to produce "water cooler" programs. These were shows that needed to be discussed right away. If you missed a certain program, it was possible that you'd miss out on a huge cultural event. Shows like "Dragnet," "The Fugitive," and "The Avengers" offered suspense and action to large audiences. Sitcoms, and those who starred in them, were huge phenomena.

Shows like "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "The Donna Reed Show" and "The Andy Griffith Show" were showcases for the biggest talents in the United States. Other sitcoms like "Gilligan's Island," " I Dream of Jeannie," and "Bewitched" were huge hits that were remembered for decades to come. " The Carol Burnett Show" was the beginning of the variety and sketch show trend that would continue into the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

What are your favorite shows from the 60s? What were the most memorable programs from that era? This list features the top television shows of the1960s, that would go on to be remembered in television history.

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Women:

Jackie O’ Style

’50s Full Skirt Dresses and Sheath Dresses

Shapeless mini dresses

Baby Doll Style

shapeless “shift dress”

The jumper dress

Shirts with patterns

mini skirt

Jax pants

The stretchy stirrup pant

bell bottom pants

Colored tights

Men:

Ivy League Look

Modernist look

BEATNIK BOYS

HIPPY

DRESS LIKE DON DRAPER

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As a life-long Beatles fan, the 1960s holds a special place in my heart. Add the James Bond movies into the mix, and the broad range of 1960s menswear clothing and I'm in love with this iconic decade.

It's easy to label something as being iconic, but in the case of the 1960s, it really does deserve it. So much happened during the '60s from the civil rights movement; the shocking assignations of Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy; and of course, the Vietnam War. And that's before we get on to the male fashion styles which we're going to cover here. Men's 60s fashions that emerged out of this changing time, and many which continue to live on today.

The 1960s is often referred to as the Swinging Sixties, perhaps on account of the bell-bottomed pants, which became all the rage towards the end of the decade. As a wearer of these flares myself during the late '90s, I can confirm to the garment's swinging qualities.

So aside from bell-bottoms, what did men wear in the 60s? Please read on as I take you on a magical mystery tour through the wide range of 1960s male clothing that defined the decade and epitomized a generation.

1960s Mens Outfit: Dress like Don Draper

During the early '60s, men were still dressing quite conservatively, certainly as far as business attire was concerned. I don't think the sixties really started to swing until at least 1964.

For an example of men's 1960s fashion suits and what men would wear to the office, you need only to look at the television phenomenon, Mad Men, where the first season starts in March 1960.

Don Draper, played by the far too handsome Jon Hamm, is the perfect example of how a professional American man would dress.

Rather than opt for an English, European or Italian cut suit, Don Draper (or the costume department) preferred the classic American look, with a single-breasted sack jacket with narrow notch lapels, two buttons and a single-vent in the back. That's not to say that all men were the same. You only need to look at Don's more adventurous colleague, Roger Sterling, to see the extra sartorial flourishes that could be enjoyed in the early '60s.

Don Draper was like a lot of men of the time; a service veteran and keen to present a professional image. As a result, he kept his style of dress very consistent and understated, which is elegant in itself. Especially when you add the typical early 1960s men's hairstyle of a short back and sides with a side part.

Get the outfit: Pair your single-breasted two buttoned suit in a muted color, with a plain textured skinny tie, white dress shirt (with French cuffs so you can wear cufflinks). Add a simple white pocket square folded in your breast pocket, perhaps a tie clip if you're feeling fancy, and highly polished black Oxford shoes. Complete the outfit with a nice felt stingy Fedora hat on your head and a high-collared tan trench coat and you'll be in charge of an advertising agency in no time.

1960s Ivy League Guys: Middle-class Mainstream

Despite first originating in the '50s (see our 1950s menwear article), the Ivy League style remained popular until at least the middle of the 1960s.

One of the poster boys for the Ivy League look was the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.

It's refreshing, even now, to see a world leader looking so effortlessly stylish. Usually, when politicians try to dress down to appeal to the public, it can look forced and awkward. But if there's one thing JFK could do with aplomb was laidback sophistication.

Of course, JFK could dress formally when the situation demanded but he looked incredible in the Ivy League menswear staples.

The demise of guys hats is often blamed on JFK as he didn't wear a top hat for his inauguration ceremony (JFK was actually pictured wearing one on the way to the ceremony, but he did remove it before addressing the crowd). In truth, hat sales were already in decline before JFK's inauguration speech. It was most likely a natural progression, during what was a very progressive decade, where non-conformity became more encouraged as the decade got underway. Recommended reading: Hatless Jack by Neil Steinberg

Get the outfit: The Ivy League look is so easy to copy and still looks on-trend today; proving that style never goes out of fashion. For a typical Ivy look, reach for an Oxford shirt, add a Shetland sweater over the top and pair with chinos and penny loafer shoes. If it's cold, add a tailored sports jacket or long wool overcoat for extra warmth.

For more 1960s young guys clothing info, get your hands on a copy of Take Ivy, a 1965 fashion photography book that documents the style of Ivy League students.

1960s British Mod: Dedicated Followers of Fashion

Over in Britain, young male adults were looking for a way to stand out and be different, led by the legendary British guitar band, The Who and Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones. Influenced by the Ivy League look across the pond, they combined this with Italian fashions and the attire worn by movie stars such as the King of Cool, Steve McQueen.

Calling themselves Modernists or Mods for short, this youth sub-culture favored slim-fitting tonic and mohair suits with narrow pants and lapels, along with polo shirts, Oxford button-down shirts, chinos, argyle socks, Madras plaid shirts and penny loafer shoes. They also turned to the military surplus stores for unissued M51 US army parkas to protect their clothes while racing around London on Lambretta or Vespa Italian scooters.

Get the outfit: A cable knit jumper sweater combined with a Harrington jacket will give you a classic Steve McQueen look. Add some well-pressed chinos and a pair of loafers and for extra cool points, try tortoiseshell wayfarer sunglasses.

For a more tailored outfit, a three-buttoned slim-fit suit with very thin notch lapels, a spearpoint collared shirt and a skinny knitted tie with make you look like Brian Jones. Add an M51 style parka and you will have nailed the British mod look.

The above 60s mod men's looks combined flat front slim pants in textured solid or a plaid pattern, turtleneck shirt, cable knit sweater, Harrington jacket and wayfarer sunglasses.

Popular 1960s styles for men were suede lace up oxfords, monk strap shoes, penny loafers, Chelsea boots (Beatles shoes), western boots, chukka boots, retro sneakers, and leather sandals. Most men's dress shoes and boots had a high shine to go with the plastic age. Pointy toe or square snub toe shoes made classic oxford shoes look new.

1960s Beatnik Boys: Wear it black

The Beat Movement was a popular youth subculture, attracting those with a creative disposition such as poets, writers, artists and musicians. The beatnik style was about dressing in a very simple and understated way.

Similar to the Ivy League look, the beatnik style also came to life in the '50s but it was the '60s where it really began to dominate.

Particularly popular in New York, Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol were the two beatnik poster boys, while The Beatles also became fans of the look with their turtleneck shirts.

The beatnik style had a romantic allure and appealed to those that desired a more bohemian lifestyle, perhaps as a result of a strict upbringing.

Get the outfit: The great thing about the beatnik style is how easy it is to achieve. So, what did beatniks wear in the 60s? We, l I just hope that you like dark colors. To achieve the beatnik style, get yourself a pair of narrow black pants, a Breton t-shirt or a black turtleneck sweater and for an extra touch, a beret. You may have guessed from the beret that the beatnik style is quite Parisian in influence. Tres chic!

1960s Male Hippy: Flower Power

As the decade progressed further, the hippy movement sprung out in response to the opposition to the Vietnam War. Anti-establishment, anti-war and anti-violence, it had an 'anything goes' philosophy, with ideals including free love. Everything got bigger and longer; hair, collars, pant legs, and far-out psychedelic patterns.

The constantly evolving Beatles could be considered early leaders of this movement with their musical masterpiece, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Released in June 1967, at the beginning of what became known as the 'Summer of Love', it captured the mood rather well. Musical legend, Jimi Hendrix was another exponent of this style, embracing outrageous patterns and prints, scarves, bell-bottomed pants to create a truly distinctive image.

London's Carnaby Street became the happening place to go and pick up some groovy clothing where velvet jackets and frilly shirts were the order of the day.

There was a big eastern influence for 1960s hippies, with Kaftan jackets, Indian prints and other ethnic fashions being worn.

The movie Easy Rider became the anthem for the hippy style when released in 1969, as people got set to roar into the 1970s.

Get the outfit: There are lots of 1960s menswear clothing for sale if you can spare some time to rummage in vintage and thrift stores. As well as a longer hairstyle, you will need a shirt with large collar in a crazy print or pattern. Flared pants are now the favored choice to cover your legs and on your feet should be a pair of Cuban heeled boots. Have fun adding a mix of loud colors and accessories where the rule book is torn to pieces and 'anything goes'.

I hope you now have lots of 60s fashions ideas for guys and have discovered that it wasn't all hippies. Although they did stand out!

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As a life-long Beatles fan, the 1960s holds a special place in my heart. Add the James Bond movies into the mix, and the broad range of 1960s menswear clothing and I'm in love with this iconic decade. It's easy to label something as being iconic, but in the case of the 1960s, it really does deserve it.