Swinging Britain in the 60s: A Psychedelic Dream (1967) | British Pathé

This segment of Pathé pictorial paints a psychedelic picture of the nineteen-sixties in London, England where the 'social rebels' have taken over with trendy clubs, paper dresses, and a new sense of discipline?
Music: Barney J Barnes And The Intro - It Must Be Love
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Social Rebels have taken over. Swinging London is spreading and the youth celebrates it's own kind of culture.
Quintessential swinging sixties footage.
See separate record of CP 662 - SWINGING BRITAIN (NEG) for full description (*PM0421*). This version was transferred from print and is in correct order, with corresponding commentary.
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[@franceskronenwett3539]

I was a teenager during the late sixties and it was a fantastic time to be alive as a young person. The fashion and makeup were so original and the music was great. I remember London as being a hub of colourful young people. Apparently it was chic to be British in those days.

[@akSeR2010]

@@davepeters3317 Certain eras are more special than others. I agree that we tend to romanticize our younger years, but this doesn't mean that every decade is the same. The 60s were indeed culturally original and vibrant. The liberalization of society begun then. There was economic growth. The arts, music, theater etc flourished.

[@irmaceja919]

And the DruGz😍🌍😵‍💫⛽️it could get real wacky to say the least

[@kavumatonny7441]

Greetings Grandpa. I respect you.

[@franceskronenwett3539]

@Donnell Okafor Of course it does. It was hand produced, fresh and original quite unlike the computerised, regurgitated remixed crap we are obliged to put up with on our radios today. Quite frankly I believe the music industry has run out of new ideas. A bit like the fashion industry.

[@hjillumi880]

@Donnell Okafor our parent´s generation tupac´s parent´s generation loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

[@eddieraffs5909]

This 81 year old guy just got a lot of good memories resurrected. Thank you.

[@britishpathe]

Apparently this is Yoko Ono at 0:53 although we are not sure why she is doing advanced mathematics!

[@TheRhNegative]

British Pathé Because she's Japanese

[@pepeverde]

Why, she's trying to integrate.

[@thetownwaites118]

Numerology or Kabbalah perhaps?

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

Trying to work out the compound interest on 50 years worth of John Lennon’s royalties!

[@Andre.felipe84]

Yes, it was Yoko ono and her former husband, Tony Cox.

[@Westwoodii]

The film is dated 1967, when the 60's "spirit" on all fronts was still ramping up. It continued on until about 1972, when things faded gradually into the 70s. A whirlwind of a time, for sure!

[@Labroidas]

I really like that these documentaries are always so positive about everything they're talking about. They never show anything in a negative light, and I really appreciate that.

[@PMMagro]

Guess why people miss these films but not this mornings news...

[@mark9978]

I think you must have been listening to a different commentary than I was. As was traditional in 1967 the older generation were baffled and shocked by anything and anyone they didn't understand. The Puritan ethic still ran very deep mid-sixties Britain. Homosexuality wasn't legalised until 1967 and a broad sweep of the public was still strongly against legalisation. Therefore young men with flowers in their hair were considered a stepping stone towards sexual immorality.

[@JoBo431]

They werent wrong.@@mark9978

[@michellefalleur960]

Yes, I agree ❤

[@zivkovicable]

I love watching these escapist films too, but i'm not so keen on people mistaking this for reality, creating a false nostalgia, and making negative comparisons to more modern times.

[@thetessellater9163]

Odd to think there may be some 80 year olds watching this going "That's me!"

[@PeachyNanaUK]

I was 15 then and I met my husband that year on a blind date. Still together!

[@killjoy4540]

Peachy-The-Nerdy-Nana UK congratulations to you both for staying together Far less do nowadays

[@newsmansuper2925]

@@killjoy4540 the state/media want weak families.

[@daniellenichols9757]

@BD my mom was 13 in 1967 and she's 68 now, so if these people were say 25yrs ol at the time then those individuals would be 80 now

[@dugebuwembo]

It's mad, I have always thought of the 60s as a recent time but the 20 & 30 year olds from that era are in their 90s...

[@andyrbush]

I was a teen in the 60s, in London loved it.

[@christinethornhill]

👵🏼. And now we're in our sixties and seventies ! Great times to have been young , FUN times .

[@mylife2022]

Someone please invent a time machine.

[@karinacabrerizo2968]

I feel blessed to have grown up in the 60s and 70s, wild and magic times!

[@Livinglife595]

Yes. I lived in Chelsea then

[@alevine1951]

Today the eye-catching pretty, leggy birds of the '60's are invisible, hidden within the forms of old ladies.

[@avengernemesis7990]

@@mylife2022 May i hop on your time machine as well. Bored to tears with Covid.. Take care Australia

[@belzyc]

Ah I love these British Pathé films! So interesting for modern eyes. And the commentary was very good too, surprisingly neutral and inquisitive unlike today’s politicised and biased documentaries

[@darcgibson5099]

Lol what are you talking about? How was this “non political” and “unbiased” are you deaf? Its so bloody trite that people somehow blind themselves to the past’s politicised nature in order to make the tired and loathsome “oh everything’s so political and biased today” statement.

[@lorettatayor5840]

born 1957. was 10 years old, remember them well, was a mini hippie, wearing hot pink and lime green clothes with matching lime green shoes. boy, i thought i was cool. maybe so!!

[@Trund27]

Loretta Tay!or love that!!

[@Magicmaetti]

Loretta i SWEAR you were cool!

[@deafmusician2]

U werent. Nobody was. All the hippies look like they hadn't seen a shower in months

[@beatlebrian4404]

@@deafmusician2 Hi DeafMusician, I was a hippy 60s /70 s we lived in teepees it was great in the summer, not so good in winter, here in the UK but we were not unwashed plenty of showers, group showers! fantastic times I may be old now but I have lived.

[@reenougle]

I was born in '58 and I was the first in my class to wear a mini dress in '67. It was hot pink and orange and just too cool.

[@BabsAmato1]

I was 16in 1967 and it was a great time to be a teen. From the music, fashion and the whole vibe. So glad to have been a child of the 60s

[@fonziebulldog5786]

They later found King Arthur smoking a joint in the woods while wearing a paper dress.

[@michaelanthony9773]

No no that was Princess Margaret.

[@rjjcms1]

🤣

[@oddjob7821]

Now we have the utterly miserable 2020s

[@andrewkitchenuk]

Only if you choose it to be.

[@seanpadraigobrien1260]

@@andrewkitchenuk yes psychosis can make you feel anything

[@truthcommentor6273]

I already miss the 2010’s. At least in the early 2010’s the world was still idealistic and optimistic for the future. The birth of memes, dubstep, social media, etc.

[@Killerspieler0815]

@Odd Job - YES , 2020-2021+ are the exact opposite of ~1970 & again early 1990s in Germany (fall of the wall + reunification & the Techno years incl. the Loveparade)

[@fooman65]

It's up to us to take it back

[@robjones2408]

A snapshot of a long-vanished period in English culture. Outside of London, it was still 1955. Jimi, Small Faces, Stones, Move Beatles, Who etc were brilliant. The charts were dominated by Ken Dodd, Engelbert Humperdinck, New Seekers, and other MOR acts. The image and the reality were two different things. Poignant to see Simon Dee at the height of his short-lived glory. He ended up as a bus driver for London Transport.

[@franceskronenwett3539]

I remember the New Seekers. I believe they were put together by a member of the original Seekers from Australia. The New Seekers were okay I suppose. The two girl singers Eve Graham and Lyn Paul were pretty girls, but with mediocre talent and the same applies to the rest of the group. They were not a patch on the original Seekers who produced some brilliant songs. Their female singer, Judith Durham, had one of clearest, loveliest voices I have ever heard. This Australian group was beautiful and original and I remember feeling so sad when they broke up.

[@beatlebrian4404]

This is just fantastic to see, the 60s was a great time to be alive, it was like the whole world had turned to colour, we'll got no time machines, except in a we have, with photos and film, thank god we can look into the past

[@ivanahavitoff7308]

those orange hats with holes were fab. I still have two.

[@TheBeteljuice]

Finally! A documentary for OUR generation!

[@woodyspooner]

The 1960s, what a time to be alive 🏵

[@vintage_life]

The 60s was a good decade for fashion

[@mothratemporalradio517]

Agree. 2 minutes in and digging that paper dress! Whatever happened to those :v ,it looks cool and they reckon it can be washed! Are we only going backwards? Retrofuturism is much better than the real future in any event. The 60s often still manage to look much fresher than anything contemporary. It's an interesting effect.

[@mitseraffej5812]

Followed by the awful 70s and the absolutely hideous 80s.

[@mothratemporalradio517]

@@mitseraffej5812 but the 90s was good, with a throwback to the 60s in the Manchester scene at the end of the 80s and start of the 90s

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

For men as well as women!

[@Jocelyn_Jade]

@@mothratemporalradio517 NYC too! Deee-Lite for example!

[@TheTonialadd]

Just for fun I went on to eBay and searched for paper dresses. You can actually by them still in the original package. ❤️

[@markjeffery1697]

How much do they cost?

[@michellefalleur960]

Wow !

[@zaza588]

Everything about this video makes me happy/sad

[@dollydagger4306]

I know what you mean.

[@znentitan4032]

Bitter /sweet melancholy

[@vanillaexplosion99]

I'm an American and we still have a thing you Brits don't, FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Let me state it for you. Britain was white and wonderful back then. You imported the third world thus you become the third world with every new import.

[@zaza588]

@@vanillaexplosion99 get yourself and your nasty racist comment out of here

[@Daud76]

@@vanillaexplosion99 I am white and I grew up in South Africa in the 1980s. Yet I do not share and appreciate your racist attitude. The world is multicultural. Get used to it.

[@keithnaylor1981]

1967 - the year we 60s people were blown away by the greatest songs that have ever come into being - See Emily Play; Whiter Shade of Pale; Homburg; Zabadak; From the Underworld; Lazy Sunday; Itchycoo Park; Excerpt from a Teenage Opera; Days of Pearly Spencer; Hole in my Shoe; Paper Sun; Flowers in the Rain; I'm a Believer; Alternate Title; All You Need is Love; Love is All Around; Groovin; San Francisco; Lets Go to San Francisco; Happy Together; She'd Rather Be With Me; San Franciscan Nights; White Rabbit; Reflections; Massachusetts; Penny Lane; Strawberry Fields; Sgt Peppers and Hello... Goodbye.

[@rogerwoodhouse7945]

Did you forget 'the Beatles' deliberately?

[@margueritemazzeo2904]

​@@rogerwoodhouse7945Her last 4 songs she listed are The Beatles..guess ur too young to know that..😂😂

[@rogerwoodhouse7945]

@@margueritemazzeo2904 The yearI got married aged 25 so you can see Im older than you! The best of the Beatles was prior to that year but some might disagree..

[@Andre.felipe84]

Caetano Veloso - Alegria, alegria.

[@seananderson6269]

Absolutely spectacular! I was born two years later. I want to go back in a time machine for a long & groovy vacation and check out those funky clothes shops. Who wants to come?

[@philip-at-tube]

Yeah, man!

[@MrMjp58]

Watching that era on films such as this, I'm reminded how beautiful the actual colour of period colour-film was. Modern film/video sees too much of the light, shade and detail for my tastes.

[@mothratemporalradio517]

Good point. 🎥🎬🎨📆

[@classicaldeb]

I see the difference, and I agree!

[@swain-Ix1tv]

i know we shouldn't romanticize the past and all but damn this documentary makes me wanna experience this for like one day

[@rodneymacomber6337]

Do it😊mushrooms and all

[@bryanice3313]

now is an african city

[@despicabledog]

what a time to be alive

[@user-xx2hj7xb6b]

Roger Miller got into the act: "En-ga-lin swings like a pendulum do, bobbies on bicycles two by two..." Swinging London rivaled New York and Paris as the place to be in the mid-1960s. There's was fashionable Carnaby Street, Mary Quant, Twiggy and Britain's biggest export of all, the Beatles who proved themselves the top pop music innovators with Revolver and Sergeant Pepper. What a time! And it passed so quickly.

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

Oh to tele port back to these times , just for a long weekend 🇬🇧 🎸 ☮️ 👚 👕 👖 👛 Granny takes a trip 😎

[@chriswheable89]

I went to Portobelo Road in July 1967 to buy one of the red military jackets, it cost £3.17.6 quite asum then. Rode from Oxford to London on my Lambretta scooter to do this. I wore the tunic when riding around Oxford on said scooter. It got a lot of attention, unfortunately, from local police who told me it was illegal to wear militart clothing. Got fed up with being pulled over, so I sold the tunic on and watched someone else chatting to plod! It was a fun time to around then.

[@thetownwaites118]

cool story man

[@chriswheable89]

steve gale sorry my friend , but I did. The shop is depicted in the clip.

[@alanmunro]

60s what a lovely time

[@BeatlesBootlegs9]

The song is Barney J Barnes And The Intro - It Must Be Love You're welcome.

[@taylorhall2028]

Thank you so much :)

[@AMLCOrey]

1960s was the best decade when it comes to fashion innovation, changes in society and fight for rights and freedom. It also had the best music of the 20th century and the most interesting people. The 1970s were the light version of this and peolle were alternatively, more ecologically. 1980s was truly commercial and total consumerism. Yuppie era at its best. 1990s was technically and by standard of living the best decade, yet the spirit and verve was not there for true and genuine things. Eversince the millenium, I fail to connect to these times. It is like we rather open the photoalbum and remember the good times in comparison to the tough times today.

[@timonsolus]

Enjoy the 2020’s while you can. Chances are, the 2040’s and 2050’s will be a LOT worse. (WW3 and aftermath)

[@mukhumor]

Wow, it's so cool to see our grandparents freaking out.

[@shastrihabib1382]

Those years ;London in mid 60's ...so fun n nostalgic😶😌✌️Salam with ❤ from Malaya ( now Malaysia singapore)🇲🇾🇬🇧

[@josephcharlesworby1993]

Wife replying. Girl wore a paper dress to work the supervisor sent her home. I remember the paper knickers they were brilliant no washing just throw them away specially, they came in handy every month

[@TheRhNegative]

Oh my God! This was fantastic! How utterly delicious!!!!

[@familialima6498]

This is fantastic Murray walker1989!

[@alevine1951]

Yes, the birds were delicious.

[@melbae.1124]

I felt younger and excited again when I watched this!!

[@Guapito1973]

The “Swinging Sixties” only really happened, to a small number of people, in a small number of places, mainly in London, whilst everybody else barely noticed it.

[@AndrewWilliams-zc1hf]

You couldn't fail to notice it with TV, radio, the press & trips to London.

[@marguskiis7711]

It was only in 1967, next year the boom was over and back to roots was fashion.

[@gedofgont1006]

That's what my mum told me, as well. Still, it looked like fun though, eh? Bit different to covid world.😫

[@Guapito1973]

@paul beenis bit rude

[@kingkane1051]

@paul beenis stantuff!

[@angelikakrawczyk1465]

3:10 that is a LOOK 😍💜 love crochet dresses so much!

[@jharris947]

There were lots of girls/women wearing them...Nice. I loved the mini-skirts/dresses. :-)

[@tamething1]

I love that dress too! And the one Hayley Mills wore in the movie "Endless Night."

[@danw1374]

​@@jharris947 Short skirts and knee high boots. What a sexy look that was!

[@54pomkiwi]

I still have the mini dress my dear Grannie (born 1889) crocheted for me when I was 14 in 1968!

[@gill8779]

@@54pomkiwi My grandmother crocheted a green mini dress for my elder sister in 1969, I always loved it.

[@anniemac7625]

I need that Bob Dylan paper dress

[@SalmanKhan-tg8hi]

Ånneka Olson The Lizard Queen 65...b...vary...nich...otloneo....my...

[@robinswamidasan]

eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=317848 (from a quick Google)

[@edgertor]

yeah don't throw those away!!!

[@Daud76]

Why not make one for yourself? I am sure it cannot be that difficult.

[@fabolvaskarika7940]

@@Daud76 I’m guess easier to buy, and cool 😎 But actually it’s a really good idea... 👍

[@barsixful]

I was only a kid. Wish I'd been older. Would have loved it

[@gabrielagraneros8141]

60 in London 🇬🇧!!!! Meraviglioso....Meraviglioso!!!!!!! ❤🇬🇧

[@nrw34260]

67 I was 17, woring at Vidal Sasson in Knightsbridge. Shopping at Mates, Take 6 and Lord John in Carnaby St. Living around the corner from Portabello Rd in Westbourne Grove. Oh, memories.

[@markuspboeddeker5930]

That 117 group footage is so awesome

[@forestsoceansmusic]

3:52 in -- "there's a boy, Paul Whitehead..." - he went on to paint excellent album covers for Prog-Rock band Genesis from 1970-1972 (one for each year). (Roger Dean didn't start painting Yes album covers until 1971.)

[@denniswhite166]

Groovey man, just groooooovy.

[@SalmanKhan-tg8hi]

Dennis Whiter dench...opera...n......deo.......my...b.....r...j...

[@lozr3792]

Very enjoyable to watch this, 20 years after the end of the war a social change was bound to happen. 60s music, film, art and fashion was inventive and so much happened socially then with more women working for instance. London wasn't a barometer of the whole of the UK, many people still lived in poverty. This little film is fun to watch nevertheless. Personally I still reckon that the combined benefits of the washing machine and contraceptive pill did the most to improve lifestyles!

[@timonsolus]

Don’t forget the microwave oven

[@ddeaae]

The British Invasion....Wow! I remember listening to so many bands when I could get to my parent's radio !!!

[@forestsoceansmusic]

0:53 in -- "that girl" perusing integral calculus looks a lot like Yoko Ono, who arrived in London that year (asked over from New York by gallery owners John Dunbar, Peter Asher & Barry Miles).

[@Andre.felipe84]

It was Yoko and her former husband, Tony Cox. And that was the Wrapping Event, where she wrapped up the lions of Trafalguar square on August 3, 1967.

[@tomservo5007]

all those beautiful guitars

[@nintendy]

No Covid - No Climate Change, and no kind of terror we endure today... I’ve been trying to think the one thing that’s lacking today; ATMOSPHERE - we had it back then in bucket loads! Everything was exciting - music, fashion. No excitement today - only misery and worry about the future... The very opposite we had back then - wish I could go back... It might not have been perfect - but it was hell of a lot better than today! I’m SO glad I was born at the time I was. I feel so sorry for the young ones today at what they missed out on - and will never really know...

[@DavidFraser007]

I was a kid in the 60s, so I didn't understand the hype, but I do remember that my Dad and some of his friends hated the music and the fashion. I thought this time was fun, probably better than the austere and conformist 50s.

[@DavidFraser007]

@Jesse Link 3 You are making huge assumptions here, with no basis.

[@lockandloadlikehell]

@Jesse Link 3 WAT

[@lorettatayor5840]

bring back the paper dress!!!!!

[@zzskal]

Its not sustainable my guy

[@tiefensucht]

@@zzskal plastic fiber is?

[@reni8413]

They were highly flammable unfortunately

[@alevine1951]

Bring back the leggy birds with bikini curves!!!

[@yourstruly7086]

@@tiefensucht but think about how much use you can get out of plastic fabrics and synthetic fabrics unlike those paper dresses that would not be around for long.

[@katk5205]

I always enjoy old people saying that my generation is crazy, and they just don't understand this new fashion and music... When people said the same to them when they were teens! We are all the same

[@reesedaniel5835]

The music is used to divide the generations. This is done on purpose. All part of the divide and conquer strategy of our enemies.

[@82pythons85]

If you mean this current generation of people in their teens, yes you have no style of your own. It’s all a take-on or stolen from prior generations. The music is just 80’s synth with 90’s hip-hop and the clothing is “nerd” mixed with yuppie. I’m not old, but I have enough common sense to see this generation has zero originality. In fact, it’s not just this generation, but the one before it too. From the year 2000-present day, there are no stand out styles or decade defining attributes. Even in the early 90’s, they had a way of satirizing the 80’s and understood what defined that decade, and it was just five years before. But, if you try to do that today, look back at 2010, what defines that time? NOTHING… not a damn thing. People still look the same and dress the same, music is still the same. Your generation has no original ideas or style.

[@Trund27]

This is incredible!!

[@KaydeyRai]

Ooh what I would give to time travel back to then and go clothes shopping, everyone is dressed so attractively and they all look happy and healthy

[@cdl0]

It looks glamorous, and in many ways was; however, the reality for many was darker: There was tremendous inequality, many men earned very little in dangerous, dirty, or precarious employment, and women were paid even less. Women were expected to leave their jobs if they married, and were not permitted to do things we take for granted now, such as borrow money, rent a car or TV, without the written permission of a man. Advertisements for accommodation would openly state, "No dogs, no Irish, no blacks", and so on. The "rebellious" youth culture shown in this video was in some ways a protest against these bad old ways in society, and the grubby, grimy old Britain as much of it was then, as much as being an expression of youthful exuberance and new ideas.

[@lozr3792]

Excellent observations, very true.

[@AlanWattResistance]

Sounds like heaven. Hope you're enjoying the hell you created.

[@cdl0]

@@AlanWattResistance I did not create it; previous generations were responsible for that. I was only a witness.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

And with all that, people were much happier than they are now!

[@cdl0]

@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 I am not so sure. In my judgement, happiness is about the same. One thing that is noticeable is that people are very much wealthier now than the were in the 1960s.

[@exelchannel8806]

Awesome.. keep it coming

[@artisticbeing260]

Dear lord, why couldn't I be alive around this time...I would've loved dressing up like this everyday!!

[@elaineglendinning9297]

I was in my early teens at the beginning of the 60's and was so envious of people living in London where it appeared so exciting and the best place to be. Biba and Mary Quant were icons with models Jean Shrimpton and Patti Boyd. I think as new stuff comes along good behaviour seems to become lost. Nowadays a person wouldn't pick up litter after missing the bin , they would leave it on the ground. It would be great if we could pick out the best from each decade but that is too subjective and people would fight over different aspects

[@macvatu]

Stop at 1:16 and look at the typewriter on the desk. I've got one similar and in full working order. Its an earlier Olympia and German made; later they were updated and electrified, and quite good they were too - until the PC came along in the 80s and all typewriters went out of business; including myself as I used to repair the damn thing !!!!

[@juancastillaalejandro5476]

Qué época tan increíble!!!!!!!!

[@baroqueman1]

Sadly, Swan Arcade in Newcastle which is portrayed briefly here has been long-since demolished.

[@sydneyw7375]

I'd love to have experienced this especially at the age of 19 I am now

[@maenastevenson]

this is the best video i’ve ever seen

[@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer]

This made me happy thankyou

[@quincee3376]

Well done video. Thanks.

[@sugarlove]

amazing!

[@richbutler718]

Groovy

[@hughmaxwell8143]

London, especially “swinging” London was a completely different place than the English countryside. I never saw swinging England

[@richbutler718]

@@hughmaxwell8143 yes true

[@rjjcms1]

Far out

[@killjoy4540]

Not for drag queens though There was normality at one point in time!

[@popfortyfive]

Yoko Ono at 0:49

[@cerysb8497]

Luis Suarez 😂😂😂😂😂

[@SalmanKhan-tg8hi]

Luis Suarez ok..nich..a......nich...d....

[@Andre.felipe84]

Looking for a rich Beatle to get married.

[@DavidLee-qh9bp]

People from the fifties and sixties dudnt grow into so called old darts but have always remained rebellious and loving the music.

[@olivercuenca4109]

Sixties maybe. Fifties, not so much from my experience.

[@NinjaDormente]

Imagine you taking off a paper dress from a bag, with Bob Dylan's face! The future it's here!

[@mdnis]

Yeah, Baby! Yeah!

[@alipercapita]

It's funny that so many people are nostalgic for the 60s and 70s but still totally anti-psychedelics. You cannot separate them.

[@yorkshirepudding6980]

It was a great time to grow up in. Innovative, great music, fashion, freedom and fun . How we all wanted to change the World.

[@mogznwaz]

Yet now that same generation is being denigrated and insulted for daring to vote for Brexit and for not being woke or diverse enough.

[@yorkshirepudding6980]

@@mogznwaz I didn't vote Brexit . I think media etc likes to turn each generation against the other ..stops people being united. I think we were "woke"in the 1960's look at how Civil rights , anti Vietnam war was challenged by the young in USA . Student riots in France etc We are all "senior citizens " now and not all Karen's!

[@mogznwaz]

@@yorkshirepudding6980 But that's my point. The people in this video are mostly post war Boomers - they were social justice warriors of their day, upending the old order. And now modern wokies hate them and blame them for Brexit and for not being woke enough. Thy had a clock counting old people's deaths until there was a 'remain majority'. That's sick. I don't think the Boomers were that disrespectful to their parents.

[@bryanice3313]

they did change it, they got rif ot it and embraced leftism and africnaims and london will never look like thta anymnore

[@carolineinthe60s]

My favorite decade ever ! People who were young during the 1960's (and especially in Britain) were so lucky. There's something so special about the 60s... People looked happier, healthy, dreamy,... Even childlike somehow (I'm saying this in a very good way). I love everything about this time, the music, the fashion, the lifestyle ! Also, I wish I could live in a world were people don't have cellphones, in a world where there is no internet but just human beings interacting with each other. I'm 22 but I'm trying my best to get rid of all those bad habits that reign everywhere now. By the way, I also notice that everyone was looking thin and healthy, not one overweight person in sight. I guess it's because people were much more active back then and weren't consuming junk food and such. Women had a small waist and were looking feminine and elegant. I will try my best to resemble them. Ugh, I'm being so nostalgic again...

[@daphne4983]

You sound unhappy

[@carolineinthe60s]

@@daphne4983 Unhappy about our decade ? Hmmm yes, I am. I wish I could just travel through time.

[@themagicminstrels476]

@@carolineinthe60s it makes me mad that we can’t

[@Jocelyn_Jade]

People looked childlike because that was fashionable. The big hair& bobs, big eye makeup, a line shift dresses, tights, all the color, the poses of the fashion models , their body type. It was a return to youth. To look like a toddler or a doll.

[@timenow5312]

I'm 67, and yes, the sixties really were that wonderful, I am not religious, but if there were a heaven, it would be back then. The Music, the fashion, the tv comedy, the way we cared about each other, the respect we had. I was born in 1956, so when I was even 8 years old, every one who was retired had lived or even served in both the first and second world wars, and yes, they were our heroes like my grandfather who served at the battles of Mons, and the Somme. I served in the Army too. The sixties were our release into joy, and wow, did we celebrate.

[@clarewieck]

The artist Keith Albarn, mentioned 04:47 and shown 04:56 (I believe), is Damon Albarn's dad.

[@npc3po301]

Wow who'dathunk, the closer you look at those who 'sprout up from nowhere' the more turgid it gets, there is no 'boy done good' stories, no room on the ladder, all the rungs taken up by the brats of the established

[@heatherracho666]

all you have to do is take some LSD and listen to the Beatles and Bam the 60's

[@alevine1951]

But that doesn't bring back the leggy birds, other than in wistful memory.

[@melbae.1124]

And what we do with all the crap that surround us? Like the new music, the bad attitude people, the junk food, the new fashions, etc?

[@killjoy4540]

The quality of clothing was so much better Tailoring and good quality seem to be a basic necessity

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

Made in England too. Try finding that now!

[@Albert-lm4ik]

Great documentary

[@harlemzed3124]

hilarious how it's documented

[@if6was929]

"Yea Baby"

[@belladarla1130]

Lol the red hair man in the tiny blue shorts 😂

[@sammavacaist]

If I had a time machine I would go to 1967 London, 1971 Los Angeles, 1977 NYC and 1991 Seattle.

[@snuzebuster]

I must say I agree with those here who wish they could experience this world first hand. I guess the closest I ever came was Grateful Dead shows back in the early to mid 80's. I was born in '58, so I have some memory of the late 60's, but was a bit too young to really take part in what was going on. Sad to think how old those hippies are now if still alive. Heck, I'm getting up there myself.

[@teacherlucas9982]

I don't care, I'm living the 6o's now. I'm 25 and I don't care.

[@shchnipsellberger30]

That's the spirit!

[@gehanoates294]

Lovely looking back.

[@cerysb8497]

I'd sell my soul to go to the sixties

[@Danielallanz]

cerys b yes me too!!

[@inmylifeivelovedthemall]

ME THREE

[@kjedsomhett]

Do it then

[@vanillaexplosion99]

Yea but you know the future now, so when you go back, every day that passes the melancholy would grow ever more intense.

[@vivlove5221]

same

[@Dewkeeper]

Nice to see reporting that's actually fair towards those crazy youths even while catering to a viewership who likely couldn't relate to many of their views.

[@elizabethanthony5044]

i like this documentary because it seems to be more of a sympathetic look at the counter culture movement and sees it as the youth doing things differently and being creative rather than being dangerous as their elders saw them

[@ginny3491]

THIS IS SO COOL

[@Claudio08111960]

Wonderful!!!! Beautiful!!!!

[@aahchoo1]

So there it was from the very beginning: the two sides of the Boomers. One side was youthful self-indulgence and creativity. And the other was the drive for career and money. As youth faded and the creativity was exhausted, what was left was the drive for career and money... and self-indulgence.

[@if6was929]

aahchoo1 people who were truly part of the counterculture didn't loose their creativity or their principles as they grew older, the media just stopped reporting about them.

[@l01l01l01l01l01l]

Nothing wrong with self-indulgence. I earned my money and I have every right to use it how I please.

[@alexsdb9712]

With freedom comes responsibility and humility.

[@outlawboxing1923]

aahchoo1 nothing to do with boomers that is s pretty much what’s still important

[@fabolvaskarika7940]

@@l01l01l01l01l01l Boomers are the most narcissistic generation, according to studies... and my personal experience too.

[@yssssaaaaa]

back when ppl was having fun without social media!! What a decade!!

[@daphne4983]

What are you using to watch this??? A bowl of water??

[@hjillumi880]

omg everyone styled like our generation in our parent´s cultures videos ughh lol

[@DennisMC1974]

This is awesome

[@Ard-mhacha-abu]

Great video 🌻 ☮️

[@bballman]

Ah the 60s. Pharmaceutical adventures aplenty.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

Not everyone used drugs in the 1960s.

[@Kaliashdevi]

There are a couple of films here and it seems like the 60's were just about shopping which is not true. I was there in London.

[@goodladdn]

all about staying stoned if I recall with whats left of my brain at 68!

[@facethestrange15yearsago81]

Shopping?

[@MaxGreen111]

This looks so fun!

[@edanabrown9061]

Love this.

[@the13corinne]

Groovy England swings!