Memories of the Swinging Sixties

Pete Sarstedt’s Where do you go to my lovely-and I’m whisked straight back to holidays on Noirmoutier in the early 2000. It was on a CD together with He ain’t heavy by the Hollies that we listened to on the journey.

My memories are of a local hotel on the seafront where all these groups, starting out, performed between 62/64 I saw them all including Hermens hermits, Rolling Stones, Freddy and the dreamers, Gerry and the pacemakers, marianne Faithful, Miguel 5, searchers, Little Richard, Hollies I could go on and on

The hotel is long since pulled down and no one knows what
I m talking about

Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harem in June, 1967. recalls when I went to stay at my sister's flat in London for her 21st birthday party. I was 17 and felt very grown up!! 🎶😎🎂

Loads and loads! The best times were probably going to see all the touring groups with my friends.

Yes, I was such a square and loved singers like David Whitfield and Malcolm Vaughan along with many others. It was such a good time for fun and interesting music. Happy days indeed!

My boyfriend and I saw Sandie Shaw perform at a small nightclub near Penzance. I can't remember what she sang but her hair was glossy, her feet bare and her skirt, like mine, ever so short. Magical. I married the boyfriend.

My memory is also 1964 and The Honeycombs had released "Have I the Right to Hold You" which I played on my transistor radio in a leather case which I hung from my bicycle handle bars while I cycled at 6.00 am through farmland to my Saturday job at the local small airport. The summer was sunny every day thank goodness. Every summer was sunny in the 60s!!! I was 15 and full of beans.