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Unbelievably, it is six decades since the release of Help!, The Beatles’ second movie. There was great anticipation and excitement about this cinematic event. The Fab Four were at the height of their

The 1960s are widely regarded as the decade that produced the best ever popular music. This is why BBC Radio 2’s Sounds of the Sixties has been running since 1983, why any pub quiz worth its while inc

Back in the 1960s, several pop groups of the day appeared in feature films created around them. They were largely good clean fun, especially in the case of the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night and the Dave

I blame my ‘groupie’ tendencies on my mother, who was so upset by Elvis’ death that we had to come home from holiday a week early. As a seven-year-old, it was disappointing to say the least, but by th

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

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