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"Their music defined the sound of the 60s and sparked the phenomenon of Beatlemania."
"The summer of love was one of the most pivotal and provocative events of the 60s."
"That was the most amazing part of the '60s for me. I mean, we have pretty much been pulling apart from that ever since. Get together, people, everybody get together, try to love one another."
"The royals' unwavering adherence to traditions was the tonic many felt was needed in the 1960s."
"In Brazil like in so many countries they had a democratically elected government in the early 1960s which the United States disliked because it was a left-wing government."
"Now in the late 60s with manned space flight achieved and a moon landing imminent, even the most optimistic parts of Tomorrowland were becoming a reality."
"For this to have been made in 1968 is nothing short of miraculous."
"According to Legend, Mothman is said to have been observed several times between 1966 and 1967."
"The miniskirt came into Vogue as bare legs developed."
"The Birds changed the West Coast music scene overnight."
"The Birds morphed a pot sensibility with a much deeper theme."
"Life within the family radically shifted in the early months of 1969."
"Fuzz was huge because it helped shape the sound of the 60s."
"Despite many of the negative connotations, the hippie movement of the '60s was an extremely positive and iconic movement for many different reasons."
"The purity of what we did in 1969 was unique."
"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is about a TV actor and his stunt double... living next door to the Tate's during the Manson murders."
"They were the best years of Our Lives; they called them The Swinging 60s."
"She has a musical Legacy that goes back to the 1960s."
"We need a real cultural revolution, like we had in the 60s."
"I definitely recommend it as a wild relic of 60s animation."
"President Kennedy said by the end of this decade..."
"The United States has become a much more civilized society since the 1960s."
"Believe it or not, 'Bells Are Ringing' is the romance of a telephone answering service."
"Secret space programs... starting right back in the 1960s."
"Half a century later, I really think people are starting to realize the genius of the 60s rock and roll hall of fame group."
"Korg was formed at just the right time, with amplified electric instruments appearing in the hands of pop bands of the 60s."
"The 60s were the greatest decade for music ever."
"The 1960s were a turbulent time in South Korea's history."
"Stonewall, the movement that really opened the door for all this, happened at the end of the 60s."
"They had to be more subliminal, especially around the 60s."
"This is one of the quintessential cool cars of the 1960s."
"That's when the Beatles took a lot of trips and some of those trips were to India."
"Would you believe it if I tell you that Diana Ross introduced the Jackson 5 in 1969 for their media debut here at the Daisy?"
"The images of Hendrix wearing the white fringe leather jacket, red head scarf, headband, and bell-bottom blue jeans are seen as capturing the Zeitgeist, the defining moment of self-awareness that closed out the '60s."
"The new slogan that was taking root: make love not war."
"We still have a cultural thing from the '60s."
"The Rat Pack were the ultimate cool guys in the 1960s."
"What Denis does very well is take the female characters more deeply into consideration in a way that was rarely the case for science fiction in the '60s."
"He was obsessed with the counterculture of the 1960s, he loved the music, the rebellious attitudes."
"The 1960s were a remarkable period in the history of the United States and in Jessica Mitford’s life."
"You let me feel like what Hollywood felt like in 1969."
"The 1960s emerged as a time of big ideas and bold changes."
"We're talking '60s, boys. The '60s is one of the best musics that's ever been done."
"I was a little kid when it happened. Everybody talked about it. I do think it had an impact. It was one of those things in the '60s that was part of opening up American society a little bit."
"But hey, this was the 60s and the times were a-changing."
"Cars in the 1960s were radical and free... every astronaut was in a Corvette."
"The culture gradually started changing of course we went through the 1960s which was sex drugs and rock and roll you know these are not things you hear about in church."
"The 60s really started to question these things."
"I'm completely 60s in my attitude toward life."
"We are in a space race today just as we were in the 1960s and the stakes are even higher."
"The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent decade of this century."
"Pontiac during the 1960s was the performance division, they were all about performance and performance image."
"Barbara herself initially seemed at odds with what stardom was afforded to women in the 1960s."
"But it was only around the 1960s and early 70s that the study of environmental psychology got going in earnest."
"That's just my opinion there, so I don't have any experience with single 60s though."
"This is like a period correct proper race car from late 60s."
"Thunderbirds is an amazing achievement for a kids show, a puppet show, and a science fiction action series produced in Britain in the 1960s."
"The 1960s exploded like a hand grenade into American (and, indeed, global) culture, blasting cracks in the social norms and conservative morality of the previous decade."
"...the 60s is one of the most tumultuous decades in American history."
"The use of LSD and marijuana by so-called hippies who demonstrated against the Vietnam War during the 1960s created great consternation among authorities and legislative bodies both the federal and state levels."
"The 1960s saw a shift away from the voluptuous figure."
"The 1960s was a period of significant social change."
"The Beatles were the Beatles and the Stones and the Dave Clark Five were like the big three."
"What this car meant for Chrysler and for the Youth of the 1960s was really, really awesome."
"1961, Wanda Jackson, rocking with Wanda."
"1961, Twilight Zone, Marty Manning and his orchestra, a sound adventure in space."
"1969, the modern Jazz Quartet, space post-bop modal."
"They were considered rebels against what was seen as conventional British norms during the 1960s."
"Rock and roll emerged in the late 1950s and early 60s featuring clean-cut harmonizing vocal groups."
"The emergence of the 1960s new wave sci-fi writers experimented with a more literary style."
"I grew up in the kind of beatnik folk music coffeehouse atmosphere of the earlier '60s."
"Bobby Kennedy was the spirit of the 60s."
"It's really interesting to see this slice of Tokyo in 1967."
"The dream of the 1960s folk singers is starting to come true."
"They remind me of my mother and her friends in the 60s."
"The 1960s really was when the American preservation movement kicked into high gear."
"The 1960s marked a critical era in the Cold War, a time of heightened tensions."
"In the late 1960s, a number of influential groups within the main three Abrahamic religions came together to form The Horizon Initiative."
"This is what drag cars looked like in the late '60s."
"This is from actually like Black Beauty movement that was happening in the 1960s."
"There was an influx of money and talent in London that took off, and it really did take off."
"It was the first time that young people wanted to be themselves, that they wanted to look the way they wanted to look."
"I think to be a citizen of the United States in the 1960s is going to be a burdensome and hazardous occupation."
"This is the best 1960s Los Angeles psychedelic albums according to me."
"Both halves of Germany were able to introduce a color service before the 60s were out."
"I Can't Get No Satisfaction was first released as a single in the United States in June 1965."
"It's such a golden time, I love that time period, the early sixties."
"I just really wanted to focus on the '60s and the '70s because I feel like those are the two most important decades."
"Through the storms, hello and welcome everyone to my 1960s house."
"The easy beats in the '60s, they were massive. It's the stuff that legends are made of."
"Just imagine it, July 5th, 1968, a summer night here in L.A., and The Doors standing right here playing to 18,000 people."
"Monday, Monday and California Dreamin'."
"The Highgate vampire case caused a media uproar in the 60s."
"The 1960s was the most tumultuous, confusing, and controversial decade of the 20th century."
"The VW Beetle started catching on with the hippies... buying them up used and new from Germany, all the same time they're protesting the Vietnam War."
"In 1965, they achieved widespread fame with their hit single 'I Got You Babe' which topped the charts."
"It was the 60s and I was very involved in the counterculture."
"That's how life was in the 1960s before neoliberals turned everything to ruins."
"October 1962 marked a new era of cinema; it marked the birth of not only James Bond but the modern action-adventure hero."
"We were all very inspired by the Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, you know, the factory era."
"It'll put you back in that '60s mid-'60s soundtrack vibe."
"How was this possibly done with 1960’s technology? Well, we are about to find out."
"The Caesar was invented in 1969 by restaurant manager Walter Chell of the Calgary Inn."
"I played my brother's music, the popular music of the 60s."
"Our list of the 25 most loved Hollywood actresses of the 1960s."
"Dan was brilliant, giant, just absolute superstar in the 60s and the perfect gentleman."
"But he uncovered one of the most complete accounts of the secret war of the 1960s."
"The new generation wanted to rebel against the conformity of the 1950s so new fashions expressed bold statements, new freedoms, and ethnic influences with bright and bold coloring and patterns."
"If you remember the '60s, you weren't there."
"I love this, you know, New York in the 60s."
"After college, Karen leaned hard into the hippie movement of the 1960s."
"In the spring of 1966, this exciting atmosphere led the American magazine Time to dub London 'The Swinging City'."
"Carnaby Street... came to embody that spirit."
"Carnaby Street's flame burned bright in the 1960s but the incredible momentum would soon prove too much to sustain."
"Hollywood releases 2001: A Space Odyssey and Yellow Submarine."
"Honda came out of left field with the inline four in 1969 as a super successful power move."
"Everything was just perfectly in balance in the '60s."
"We are going to the moon and we're going to do it within this decade."
"I kind of got into it and it was the 1960s, and people were trying to find some way of avoiding conventional work."
"The art is pretty nice even by today's standards, even though it came out in the 60s."
"I've always loved the flower child movements that occurred in the 60s."
"Hippies preached a culture of peace, tolerance, and harmony with nature."
"The streets of California were full of hitchhikers; this was the season of The Summer of Love."
"My biggest time machine kind of fantasies would be to go back to August of 1969 and be at Woodstock."
"In the 1960s a grand planetary tour to study the outer planets was proposed."
"It wasn't as common for a band to write their own music as it was later on in the '60s."
"He was one of the most important contributors to the British pop art movement which first burst onto the scene in the early 1960s."
"Everything we accept as normal, the fact that I'm here, that I teach at a university as a black woman, that Ellen is in the public sphere, all of these cultural changes were a result of these fierce struggles that happened in the 1960s."
"That might be the best song of the '60s, y'all."
"That was a huge watershed moment for back in the 60s, a gigantic step forward in terms of equality on national television."
"In the midnight hour by Wilson Pickett, which sounds like this."
"Stand by me by Ben E. King, and it sounds like this."
"It takes me back to a High Street in the mid '60s when I used to spend a lot of time just sitting in the chair."
"The Apollo guidance computer... is a real-time digital control computer whose conception and development took place in the early part of the '60s."
"We're going to the moon in this decade."
"...what is today often labeled as literary theory or even simply as theory was an intellectual product of the political turmoil of the 1960s."
"The Monkees as a TV show were the '60s on television."
"I think they were very important to the early kind of psychedelic slash acid rock scene of the late 60s."
"The phenomenal Milestone of Landing a spacecraft on Venus occurred in the 1960s."
"It's such a wonderful example of the fantasy element of Doctor Who being pushed to its late 60s limit."
"...among the brightest intellectuals associated with the anti-authoritarian movements of the 1960s."
"The 60s was amazing, Hendrix, Cream, all that great music."
"If you're going to San Francisco, be sure and wear some flowers in your hair."
"In the 60s, London was now the place to be."
"The mod style... came from the term modern because they were feeling modern, they were feeling futuristic."
"Civil War reenacting really took off in the 60s."
"In the 1960s, my generation set out on a journey of change."
"I think we're seeing this in 2022 as well but very much classic that just 1960s racing."
"Tainted Love was actually written in the early 60s."
"They did three albums in 1969 alone; that's just remarkable."
"These are some vintage pennants from the '60s."
"In the early 60s, a group of rather rebellious cave divers... saw the opportunity to break away."
"In the Swinging 60s, Hollywood was buzzing with stars, but one newcomer from Sweden was about to turn heads like never before."
"Her big break came in the early 1960s, and it was clear from the start that she was a star in the making."
"In the 1960s, men growing their hair out long was to stick it to the man, to go against the culture, to be against the grain."
"It's a wonderful piece of engineering from the 1960s."
"Hitchcock and Herrmann were an established team by the 1960s."
"Time pilots, full speed ahead to 1968."
"It's about jazz and young love in the sixties."
"The beetle was perfect for hippies, it was the exact opposite of the cars their parents liked."
"The Zombies have the best lead singer from any band of the 60s that isn't Mick Jagger."
"These girls hooked up at Woodstock. Totally, it was groovy, as far out, man."
"This is a watch that came out in the '60s and was quite popular in the Vietnam War."
"The song was featured in 'The Graduate' movie which came out in late 1967."
"In the 1960s, the girls accepted their transactional life without much cunning or treachery; maybe they stole a bit to survive, but they had kind hearts."
"Pride enjoyed remarkable chart success in the late 1960s and early 1970s."
"In the 1960s, it became known for its widespread military use."
"In the 60s there was a ton of good music, I loved a lot of their music."
"It's Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider."
"One of those songs that truly shaped music and arguably the greatest decade in popular music history, the 1960s."
"The 1960s was a decade when hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans gave new life to the nation's democratic ideals."
"My mother was at the top of her field in computer science in the 60s."
"The great players were heroes. Cream in the late 60s were knocking people out because they jammed."
"The 60s happened and what happened to the 60s is a kind of resurgence from below in both men and women to overthrow the sort of oppressive nature of role definitions."
"Poverty was reduced in the 1960s."
"Muhammad Ali became a social and political activist during the 1960s."
"Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead... is said to be a gloriously entertaining novel set in 1960s New York."
"Pop art was the academy of the 60s."
"The 1960s is the high-water mark... we basically transformed from a series of protests into a revolution."
"The Corvette Stingray from the '60s, the split window so it has to be a 1963."