What kind of screwed up world do we live in where American kids don’t care about Swinging London? Kids of my g-g-generation marked the beginning of Modern Cultural Life in 1964—specifically February—Beatles on Ed Sullivan and the subsequent glorious British Invasion of Sixties bands, fashion and…the gorgeous girls—Jane Asher, Jean Shrimpton, Vanessa Redgrave, Patti Boyd, […]
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Birds of the British Isles – 1964, Swinging London and all that
Monday, November 15th, 2010A strange black light…
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009Sway by Zachary Lazar It’s just that demon life has got you in its sway. (M. Jagger/K. Richards, 1971) It’s become conventional wisdom to accept the notion that the 60’s officially ended at Altamont—the free concert near San Francisco in December of 1969 that resulted in the deaths of at least four people. In Zachary […]
