Which British song sums up the 1960s for you?

I can’t get no satisfaction by the Stones. Very apt just now in the UK.

Dedicated Follower Of Fashion by The Kinks captured the obsession with fashion at the time.

Late 60s, hippy, psychedelic - 'The Hole in my Shoe' by Traffic.

I was a huge Beatles fan, practically anything by them.....but Procul Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale was number 1 for so long, in fact all summer in 1967. Somehow with the completely incomprehensible lyrics and dreamy music borrowed from "Air on a G string" it had a kind of zeitgeist that defined the later 60s. It still transports me right back there whenever I hear it, I'm 13 again!

Shout by Lulu

All or Nothing by Small Faces

Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck. A good dance/party song, with a 'shouty' chorus.

Marvin Gaye "Heard it through the Grapevine"
Beatles "Hey Jude"
BeachBoys "Good Vibrations"
Animals "House of the Rising Sun"
Otis Redding " Dock of the Bay"

Too many to mention it was truly a wonderful era for outstanding music.

Itchycoo Park - Small Faces?

San Francisco (flowers) Scott McKenzie, but that’s American.

Do Wah Diddy Diddy by Manfred Man

Space Oddity, I think it was late 60’s.

Pretty Flamingo - Manfred Mann
I got you baby- Sonny and Cher
Love Me Do - The Beatles

Everything listed by other people.
Its impossible to limit it. Weren't we lucky?

Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

Anything by the Stones.

To capture the zeitgeist you need some protest songs like

John Lennon - give peace a chance or

Donovan’s “universal soldier”

I'd go with Waterloo Sunset too- sums up so much of swinging London but has also passed the test of time.

So many others, but this really resonates more for me.

Go Now, by The Moody Blues.

It would have to be Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues.
Elvis’s In the Ghetto.
I was only a toddler but remember my dad playing these two songs.
I’ve always said 60s was the best time for music

If you asked for 100 I'd still struggle Stoker48!

It's so difficult because every single year of that magical music decade had it's own stand out tunes and associated memories. All of the above plus
She was just 17...Beatles, jiving and doing the Cavern stomp in our youth club
The times they are a'changin...Bob Dylan, marching round town with CND banners and sleeping out overnight at the local cenotaph.
God only knows...Beach Boys, hitching lifts to Rhyl and camping out
Reach out...Four Tops dancing our hearts out to our beloved Motown
All you need is Love...Beatles, working the season in Newquay and all the girls gathered in the still room singing together, cleaning up quickly before getting ready to go down to the Sailor's and
I'm a believer...Monkees sung a bit tipsily at the end of the night walking back.

Such wonderful memories and such a lovely thread.

It would have to be The Kinks with You Really Got Me. It has a very strong first riff and it explodes into the Sixties and grabs your audience attention immediately let alone them wanting to get up and start bopping.

This is Dedicated to the One I Love - Mamas and Papas.
My Generation - The Who
All You Need is Love - The Beatles.
Paint it Black - Rolling Stones

Far too many to mention really.

Its impossible to limit it. Weren't we lucky?
We certainly were!

Find a pin Stoker!
Making sure it's British, of course:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_singles_chart_number_ones_of_the_1960s

England Swings but that is, of course, sung by Roger Miller, an American.

Petula Clark “Downtown”
Cilla Black “Anyone Who Had a Heart”
Sandy Shaw “Puppet on a String”

We’ve got to get out of this place The Animals sums up the last few weeks of sixth form

Oh dear, got a bit carried away and forgot the British bit -

She's not there...Zombies
Yeah,yeah...Georgie Fame
Build me up Buttercup...Foundations
Keep on running...Spencer Davis
Girl don't come...Sandie Shaw