Swinging 60’s | Beetle's humour - Memories of 50's & 60's

Where am I?

Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 18:20 | Category : Ramblings, photos
Tags : black ice, boots, coughing, England, ice, medication, skating rink, snow, stir crazy, Swinging 60's, tissues

You may well ask where I’ve been lately. The answer would be “Precisely nowhere” I am still coughing for England, not sleeping at night because of the coughing – even though I am sleeping (or not) sitting up. I’m going through tissues faster than I would like, because we are STILL snowed in, with no [...]

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I felt the music in me.

Monday, 25 August 2008, 0:25 | Category : Swinging 60's
Tags : Art, backstage, buffy sainte marie, classical, flowers, folk, guitar, joan baez, julie felix, London, music, pencil, performance, portrait, programme, records, singing, song, songwriters, steel stringed jumbo, Swinging 60's

Late one night, back in the mid sixties, I saw a TV programme and it caught my attention. A woman was singing and there was something about the song that really tugged at me. I had never heard this type of music before, or seen singers like the three that this programme featured. [...]

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