Some rightly think 1967, the Summer of Love, was a good year for pop which in many ways it was with the likes of:
Penny Lane Beatles;
Hole In My Shoe Traffic;
Young Girl Gary Puckett and the The Union Gap;
Pictures of Lily The Who and even -
The Laughing Gnome David Bowie and just a few more making us have fun............. PLUS albums which included
Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles; THE VERY SIGNIFICANT
St.Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band The Beatles; Disraeli Gears Cream....................
but 1968, ah 1968, FOR ME with MY collection it was
Those Were The Days Mary Hopkins............... and besides
Fire and
This Wheels Of Fire there was:
Hey Jude Beatles;
Jumpin Jack Flash The Rolling Stones;
Lady Madonna Beatles:
Ice In The Sun The Status Quo;
Gotta See Jane R Dean Taylor;
Eloise Barry Ryan;
High In The Sky Amen Corner;
I Say A Little Prayer Aretha Franklin;
On The Road Again Caned Heat;
Albatross Fleetwood Mac;
All Along The Watchtower Jimi Hendrix Experience;
Blackberry Way The Move;
With A Little Help From My Friends Joe Cocker;
Classical Gas Mason Williams;
Sabre Dance Love Sculpture;
MacArthur Park Richard Harris;
I Heard Ut Through The Grapevine Marvin Gaye;
Rainbow Valley The Love Affair;
Lilly The Pink The Scaffold;
Land O 1,000 Dances Wilson Pickett; and even
I'm The Urban Spaceman The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Plus Albums like
The White Album The Beatles;
Wheels of Fire Cream
all to dance and have fun with!!
Now, yes this is an insight into my collection of that time as a contemporary teenage girl who often copied what her friends liked; there were many more that others would select I know, but it,
I think, reflects another age of us British teenagers following the charts and,
seemingly, without a care for the environment, but just kids having fun.
We did not go on 'environmental protests, just supported the protests against the Vietnam War. We were
I believe 'simple' and rightly childlike as the children we were, not like our poor kids of today who are bombarded with great worries about being stabbed, shot, groomed, or saving the Planet from us humans, apart from the very real threat from The Cold War which would increasingly wipe away our innocence and fill us with the dread that I think the children of today have in respect of the environment.
The children of the last war, my parents included had very real fears, then WE the baby boomers, came along had enjoyed a simple childhood, that grew fears of pending nuclear wipe out, that our children had passed on to them. Now our current young generation have very real and realistic concerns about climate warming and what humans can / may do about it.
Our songs did include protests about war, and it is interesting to note the lyrics that included the word "Fire!" as in the previous example. Does the current generation have songs protesting against the threats to the environment / the World?
Now I have rambled on a bit, as I do!! But whilst remembering past great musici prompted by the lyric "If your memory serves you well" it made me think of our simple, music filled childs lives compared to what the kids have now. Fears we are going to destroy life on Earth