The Best Decade by Rob Moss

The BEST decade - a look at 'that' decade

Those of us fortunate enough to have spent our teenage years in the 1960s should be feeling especially sad at the premature passing of George Best. Not just because he was a brilliant footballer or that he lived a Faustian lifestyle " but because he was a true icon in an age that gave us the cultural foundations of our modern existence, and, more specifically, created the music we love.

Best was part of an era that gave us discothiques and a dance style that didn't require a course of lessons with Fred Astaire...a time that emancipated both sexes from the strict social constraints of previous generations

...a decade that exploded with artistic creativity, social change and political reform ...a period splattered with unique, yet varied, fads, phases and fashions of dress, attitude and lifestyle. It gave us television with more than one channel and coloured pictures, telephones in almost every home, 'pirate' radio stations that didn't just play the most popular music, 'package' tours by black American artists and ....

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