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Swinging Sixties

Part of the counterculture of the 1960s

A scene in Carnaby Street, in London's West End, c. 1966

Date 1960s

Location United Kingdom

Also known as Swinging London

Outcome Changing social, political and cultural values

The Swinging Sixties was a youth-driven cultural revolution that took place in the United Kingdom during the mid-to-late 1960s, emphasising modernity and fun-loving hedonism, with Swinging London denoted as its centre.[1] It saw a flourishing in art, music and fashion, and was symbolised by the city's "pop and fashion exports", such as the Beatles, as the multimedia leaders of the British Invasion of musical acts; the mod and psychedelic subcultures; Mary Quant's miniskirt designs; popular fashion models such as Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton; the iconic status of popular shopping areas such as London's King's Road, Kensington and Carnaby Street; the political activism of the anti-nuclear movement; and the sexual liberation movement.[1]

Music was an essential part of the revolution, with "the London sound" being regarded as including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks and the Small Faces, bands that were additionally the mainstay of pirate radio stations like Radio Caroline, Wonderful Radio London and Swinging Radio England.[2] Swinging London also reached British cinema, which according to the British Film Institute "saw a surge in formal experimentation, freedom of expression, colour, and comedy", with films that explored countercultural and satirical themes.[1] During this period, "creative types of all kinds gravitated to the capital, from artists and writers to magazine publishers, photographers, advertisers, film-makers and product designers".[2]

During the 1960s, London underwent a "metamorphosis from a gloomy, grimy post-war capital into a bright, shining epicentre of style".[2] The phenomenon has been agreed to have been caused by the large number of young people in the city—due to the baby boom of the 1950s—and the postwar economic boom.[2] Following the abolition of the national service for men in 1960, these young people enjoyed greater freedom and fewer responsibilities than their parents' generation,[2] and "[fanned] changes to social and sexual politics".[1]

Shaping the popular consciousness of aspirational Britain in the 1960s, the period was a West End–centred phenomenon regarded as happening among young, middle class people, and was often considered as "simply a diversion" by them. The swinging scene also served as a consumerist counterpart to the more overtly political and radical British underground of the same period. English cultural geographer Simon Rycroft wrote that "whilst it is important to acknowledge the exclusivity and the dissenting voices, it does not lessen the importance of Swinging London as a powerful moment of image making with very real material effect."[3]

Background

The Swinging Sixties was a youth movement emphasising the new and modern. It was a period of optimism and hedonism, and a cultural revolution. One catalyst was the recovery of the British economy after post-Second World War austerity, which lasted through much of the 1950s.[4]

"The Swinging City" was defined by Time magazine on the cover of its issue of 15 April 1966.[5] In a Piri Halasz article 'Great Britain: You Can Walk Across It on the Grass',[6] the magazine pronounced London the global hub of youthful creativity, hedonism and excitement: "In a decade dominated by youth, London has burst into bloom. It swings; it is the scene",[7][8] and celebrated in the name of the pirate radio station, Swinging Radio England, that began shortly afterwards.

The term "swinging" in the sense of hip or fashionable had been used since the early 1960s, including by Norman Vaughan in his "swinging/dodgy" patter on Sunday Night at the London Palladium. In 1965, Diana Vreeland, editor of Vogue magazine, said that "London is the most swinging city in the world at the moment."[9] Later that year, the American singer Roger Miller had a hit record with "England Swings", although the lyrics mostly relate to traditional notions of Britain.

Music

The Kinks in 1967

Already heralded by Colin MacInnes' 1959 novel Absolute Beginners which captured London's emerging youth culture,[10] Swinging London was underway by the mid-1960s and included music by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, Small Faces, the Animals, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw and other artists from what was known in the US as the "British Invasion".[11] Psychedelic rock from artists such as Pink Floyd, Cream, Procol Harum, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Traffic grew significantly in popularity.

Large venues, besides former music halls, included Hyde, Alexandra and Finsbury Parks, Clapham Common and the Empire Pool (which became Wembley Arena). This sort of music was heard in the United Kingdom on TV shows such as the BBC's Top of the Pops (where the Rolling Stones were the first band to perform with "I Wanna Be Your Man"), and ITV's Ready Steady Go! (which would feature Manfred Mann's "5-4-3-2-1" as its theme tune), on commercial radio stations such as Radio Luxembourg, Radio Caroline and Radio London, and from 1967 on BBC Radio One.[12][13]

The Rolling Stones' 1966 album Aftermath has been cited by music scholars as a reflection of Swinging London. Ian MacDonald said, with the album the Stones were chronicling the phenomenon, while Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon called it "the soundtrack of Swinging London, a gift to hip young people".[14]

Fashion and symbols

See also: peacock revolution

During the Swinging Sixties, fashion and photography were featured in Queen magazine, which drew attention to fashion designer Mary Quant.[15][16] Mod-related fashions such as the miniskirt stimulated fashionable London shopping areas such as Carnaby Street and King's Road, Chelsea.[17][18] Vidal Sassoon created the bob cut hairstyle.[19]

Carnaby Street, c. 1968

The model Jean Shrimpton was another icon and one of the world's first supermodels.[20] She was the world's highest paid[21] and most photographed model[22] during this time. Shrimpton was called "The Face of the '60s",[23] in which she has been considered by many as "the symbol of Swinging London"[21] and the "embodiment of the 1960s".[24]

Like Pattie Boyd, the wife of Beatles guitarist George Harrison, Shrimpton gained international fame for her embodiment of the "British female 'look' – mini-skirt, long, straight hair and wide-eyed loveliness", characteristics that defined Western fashion following the arrival of the Beatles and other British Invasion acts in 1964.[25] Other popular models of the era included Veruschka, Peggy Moffitt and Penelope Tree. The model Twiggy has been called "the face of 1966" and "the Queen of Mod", a label she shared with, among others, Cathy McGowan, the host of the television rock show Ready Steady Go! from 1964 to 1966.[26]

The British flag, the Union Jack, became a symbol, assisted by events such as England's home victory in the 1966 World Cup. The Jaguar E-Type sports car was a British icon of the 1960s.[27]

In late 1965, photographer David Bailey sought to define Swinging London in a series of large photographic prints.[28] Compiled into a set titled Box of Pin-Ups, they were published on 21 November that year.[29] His subjects included actors Michael Caine and Terence Stamp; musicians John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and five other pop stars; Brian Epstein, as one of four individuals representing music management; hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, Ad Lib club manager Brian Morris, and the Kray twins; as well as leading figures in interior decoration, pop art, photography, fashion modelling, photographic design and creative advertising.[28]

Bailey's photographs reflected the rise of working-class artists, entertainers and entrepreneurs that characterised London during this period. Writing in his 1967 book The Young Meteors, journalist Jonathan Aitken described Box of Pin-Ups as "a Debrett of the new aristocracy".[30]

Film

The Mini became an icon of 1960s popular culture, and featured in the 1969 British caper film The Italian Job.

The phenomenon was featured in many films of the time, including Darling (1965) starring Julie Christie, The Pleasure Girls (1965),[31] The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965), Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (1966), Alfie (1966) starring Michael Caine, Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), Georgy Girl (1966), Kaleidoscope (1966), The Sandwich Man (1966), The Jokers (1967), Casino Royale (1967) starring Peter Sellers, Smashing Time (1967), To Sir, with Love (1967), Bedazzled (1967) starring Dudley Moore and Peter Cook, Poor Cow (1967), I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967), Up the Junction (1968), Joanna (1968), Otley (1968), The Strange Affair (1968), Baby Love (1968), The Magic Christian (1969), The Touchables (1968), Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (1969), Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969), Performance (1970), and Deep End (1970).[32]

The comedy films Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), written by and starring Mike Myers, resurrected the imagery of the Swinging London scene (but were filmed in Hollywood), as did the 2009 film The Boat That Rocked.[27]

Television

The ITV spy-fi series The Avengers (1961–1969), particularly after it began broadcasting in colour, revelled in its Swinging Sixties setting.[33] In the 1967 episode "Dead Man's Treasure", Emma Peel (played by Diana Rigg) arrives in the archetypal English village of Swingingdale, dubbing it "not very swinging".

In the episode "Beauty Is an Ugly Word" (1966) of BBC's Adam Adamant Lives!, Adamant (Gerald Harper), an Edwardian adventurer suspended in time since 1902, was told, "This is London, 1966 – the swinging city."[34]

The BBC show Take Three Girls (1969) is noted for Liza Goddard's first starring role, an evocative folk-rock theme song ("Light Flight" by Pentangle), a West Kensington location, and scenes in which the heroines were shown dressing or undressing.[35]

"Jigsaw Man", a 1968 episode of the detective series Man in a Suitcase, opened with the announcement: "This is London … Swinging London."[36]

See also

1960s in fashion

Cool Britannia, a Britain-wide phenomenon in the 1990s and 2000s

Freakbeat

Timeline of London 1940s–1990s

UK underground – London 1960s counter-culture, or underground, scene

Yé-yé

Youthquake (movement)

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 Quoted by John, Weekend Telegraph, 16 April 1965; and in Pearson, Lynn (2007) "Roughcast textures with cosmic overtones: a survey of British murals, 1945–80" Decorative Arts Society Journal 31: pp. 116–37

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 Armstrong, Lisa (17 February 2012). "Mary Quant: 'You have to work at staying slim—but it's worth it'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 October 2012.

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MacDonald, Ian (November 2002). "The Rolling Stones: Play With Fire". Uncut. Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required)

Margotin, Philippe; Guesdon, Jean-Michel (2016). The Rolling Stones All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track. Running Press. ISBN 978-0316317733.

Melly, George (1970). Revolt into Style. Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-7139-0166-5.

Moon, Tom (2004). "The Rolling Stones". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. London: Fireside. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

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External links

"1960s Fashion Feature, including biographies, interviews, clothing and resources". Victoria and Albert Museum.

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The Beatles released 18 of the best-selling songs of the 1960s.

A single is a type of music release defined by the British Official Charts Company (OCC) as having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 25 minutes.[1] On 31 May 2010, a retrospective record chart was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 that listed the 60 biggest-selling singles in the United Kingdom during the 1960s.[2] The programme, entitled The Top 60 Best Selling Records of the 60s, was hosted by British DJ Tony Blackburn.[3] The chart was compiled by the OCC, and was based on sales of singles from 1 January 1960 to 31 December 1969.[4]

The most represented act in the chart is the Beatles, who feature on the list with 18 releases, seven of which are in the top twenty.[5][6] Similarly, the most represented record label is Parlophone, who released music from the Beatles between 1962 and 1968 in the UK.[7] The most represented act after the Beatles is the Rolling Stones, who have five singles in the list.[8][9] The highest-placed solo female artist on the list is Cilla Black at number 27, with her 1964 single "Anyone Who Had a Heart", which was also distributed by Parlophone.[3] Of the 60 discs in the chart, more than half (44) are by British acts.[5]

During the 1960s, sales of singles in the UK were monitored by several magazines, including New Musical Express (NME), Record Retailer, Melody Maker and Disc.[10] Before 1969, no officially recognised singles chart was published in the UK.[11] Until 10 March 1960, chart compilers used the weekly chart listed by NME, after which they moved to the singles list published by Record Retailer, despite NME having the wider circulation and higher readership.[10][11] During the start of the decade, Record Retailer was sampling roughly 30 stores; NME and Melody Maker had a sample size of more than one hundred.[10] One source explains that the reason for using the Record Retailer chart for the early 1960s was that it was "the only chart to have as many as 50 positions for almost the entire decade".[12] On 15 February 1969, Record Retailer and the BBC jointly commissioned the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) to record sales of singles in what officially became the UK Singles Chart.[13] The BMRB compiled the chart by using hand-written and post-submitted data from approximately 250 record stores.[13]

Between 1960 and 1969, fourteen singles sold more than one million copies in the UK, of which the biggest-selling was "She Loves You" by the Beatles.[14][15] Released on 23 August 1963, the single spent six non-consecutive weeks at number one and sold more than 1.89 million copies, approximately 140,000 more than its nearest rival, "I Want to Hold Your Hand", also by the Beatles.[6] The biggest-selling record not to top the UK Singles Chart was Acker Bilk's 1961 instrumental "Stranger on the Shore" – it sold more than 1.13 million copies and peaked at number two, being kept off the top by "The Young Ones" by Cliff Richard and the Shadows, another million-seller.[16]

Singles

Black-and-white photograph of the Rolling Stones sitting on a staircase in 1965.

The Rolling Stones had five of the biggest-selling singles of the decade.

Black-and-white promotional photograph of Elvis Presley from the 1957 film Jailhouse Rock.

American singer Elvis Presley featured in the decade-end singles chart with four songs.

Head-and-shoulders colour photograph of Cliff Richard in 1975.

Between 1960 and 1969, Cliff Richard released three of the best-selling singles.

Colour photograph of Ken Dodd in a dressing room in 2007. He is holding two feather dusters against his head in a comical fashion.

British comedian Ken Dodd's 1965 song "Tears" was the third best-selling track of the decade.[15]

Best-selling singles of the 1960s in the UK No. Single Artist Record label[a] Year[a] Chart

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1 "She Loves You" The Beatles Parlophone 1963 1

2 "I Want to Hold Your Hand" The Beatles Parlophone 1963 1

3 "Tears" Ken Dodd Columbia 1965 1

4 "Can't Buy Me Love" The Beatles Parlophone 1964 1

5 "I Feel Fine" The Beatles Parlophone 1964 1

6 "The Carnival Is Over" The Seekers Columbia 1965 1

7 "We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper" The Beatles Parlophone 1965 1

8 "Release Me" Engelbert Humperdinck Decca 1967 1

9 "It's Now or Never" Elvis Presley RCA 1960 1

10 "Green, Green Grass of Home" Tom Jones Decca 1966 1

11 "The Last Waltz" Engelbert Humperdinck Decca 1967 1

12 "Stranger on the Shore" Acker Bilk Columbia 1961 2

13 "I Remember You" Frank Ifield Columbia 1962 1

14 "The Young Ones" Cliff Richard and The Shadows Columbia 1962 1

15 "Sugar, Sugar" The Archies RCA 1969 1

16 "The Next Time" / "Bachelor Boy" Cliff Richard and The Shadows Columbia 1962 1

17 "Telstar" The Tornados Decca 1962 1

18 "From Me to You" The Beatles Parlophone 1963 1

19 "Two Little Boys" Rolf Harris Columbia 1969 1

20 "Hey Jude" The Beatles Apple 1968 1

21 "Hello, Goodbye" The Beatles Parlophone 1967 1

22 "There Goes My Everything" Engelbert Humperdinck Decca 1967 2

23 "Help!" The Beatles Parlophone 1965 1

24 "Cathy's Clown" The Everly Brothers Warner Bros. 1960 1

25 "Glad All Over" The Dave Clark Five Columbia 1963 1

26 "Needles and Pins" The Searchers Pye 1964 1

27 "Anyone Who Had a Heart" Cilla Black Parlophone 1964 1

28 "Apache" The Shadows Columbia 1960 1

29 "Lovesick Blues" Frank Ifield Columbia 1962 1

30 "My Way" Frank Sinatra Reprise 1969 5

31 "Distant Drums" Jim Reeves RCA 1966 1

32 "You'll Never Walk Alone" Gerry and the Pacemakers Columbia 1963 1

33 "Get Back" The Beatles and Billy Preston Apple 1969 1

34 "All You Need Is Love" The Beatles Parlophone 1967 1

35 "Strangers in the Night" Frank Sinatra Reprise 1966 1

36 "The Last Time" The Rolling Stones Decca 1965 1

37 "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" Elvis Presley RCA 1961 1

38 "I'll Never Find Another You" The Seekers Columbia 1965 1

39 "Are You Sure?" The Allisons Fontana 1961 2

40 "Yellow Submarine" / "Eleanor Rigby" The Beatles Parlophone 1966 1

41 "I'm a Believer" The Monkees RCA 1967 1

42 "Paperback Writer" The Beatles Parlophone 1966 1

43 "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" The Rolling Stones Decca 1965 1

44 "Ticket to Ride" The Beatles Parlophone 1965 1

45 "Those Were the Days" Mary Hopkin Apple 1968 1

46 Magical Mystery Tour[b] The Beatles Parlophone 1967 2

47 "Wooden Heart" Elvis Presley RCA 1961 1

48 "19th Nervous Breakdown" The Rolling Stones Decca 1966 2

49 "It's Not Unusual" Tom Jones Decca 1965 1

50 "Honky Tonk Women" The Rolling Stones Decca 1969 1

51 "Penny Lane" / "Strawberry Fields Forever" The Beatles Parlophone 1967 2

52 "A Hard Day's Night" The Beatles Parlophone 1964 1

53 "I Love You Because" Jim Reeves RCA 1964 5

54 "Summer Holiday" Cliff Richard and The Shadows Columbia 1963 1

55 "Oh, Pretty Woman" Roy Orbison London 1964 1

56 "I Won't Forget You" Jim Reeves RCA 1964 3

57 "Lady Madonna" The Beatles Parlophone 1968 1

58 "Surrender" Elvis Presley RCA 1961 1

59 "Delilah" Tom Jones Decca 1968 2

60 "Jumpin' Jack Flash" The Rolling Stones Decca 1968 1

The record labels, years and chart peaks are those given by the OCC.[17]

    Magical Mystery Tour was released as an extended play in the UK, which, at the time, qualified it for the UK Singles Chart.[18]

References

General (chart positions)

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Specific

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"The Unswinging Sixties". London: BBC News. 3 June 2010. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2011.

"The Beatles' She Loves You tops Radio 2 chart of best-selling record of the Sixties". London: BBC. 31 May 2010. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2011.

McSmith, Andy (1 June 2010). "The Beatles: bigger than Ken Dodd – but only just". The Independent. London. ISSN 0951-9467. OCLC 185201487. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2011.

"The Top 60 Best Selling Records of the 60s". London: BBC Programmes. 2010. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2011.

Low, Valentine (1 June 2010). "Ken Dodd single comes third in chart of bestselling Sixties singles". The Times. London. ISSN 0140-0460. OCLC 421637096. Retrieved 16 September 2011.

"Key Events in Harrison's Life". Fox News. 30 November 2001. Archived from the original on 4 December 2001. Retrieved 22 October 2011.

"Ken Dodd tickles top selling chart hits". The Scotsman. Edinburgh: JPIMedia. 31 May 2010. ISSN 0307-5850. OCLC 614655655.

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Warwick, Neil; Kutner, Jon; Brown, Tony (2004). The Complete Book of the British Charts: Singles and Albums (3rd ed.). London: Omnibus. p. v. ISBN 978-1-84449-058-5. OCLC 474573230. Retrieved 22 October 2011.

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"Million Sellers". London: The Official UK Charts Company. 2008. Archived from the original on 16 April 2008. Retrieved 22 October 2011.

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"Acker Bilk". London: Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

"Artist Chart History". London: Official Charts Company. 2010. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2011.

    "30th December 1967". London: Official Charts Company. 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2011.

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