u3a Rewind: the sixties
Young people in Carnaby Street, London, c.1966. The National Archives, INF 14/147. No known copyright restrictions.
Julia, Harrogate u3a
I remember it being a necessity listening to the Top 20 on a Sunday evening every week on a small battery operated transistor radio in my bedroom, sometimes recording some on a small separate plug-in tape player/recorder. This was because it would be the main topic of conversation at break times at school the next day! Another memory is of going on a Saturday regularly into town (Durham) to the upstairs record shop on the road to the Cathedral to listen in a music booth with several friends (crammed into the booth so the door would shut!) to a popular single or track on a LP (supposedly with a view to buying the record, although I never did!). I also used to listen on a very crackly radio with a poor signal that came in and out, to Radio Caroline. My radio was under my pillow as I was supposed to be going to sleep!
Alan, Tadcaster & Villages u3a
Two music memories particularly remain with me to this day. The first was going to a youth club and hearing A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procal Harum for the first time - it must have been played every week at the club that summer. The second is saving up enough money from my Saturday job to go to the record shop - asking to listen to the latest hit in the booth, buying it and taking it home on the bus to play on the family Dansette player.
Roger, London u3a
Two music memories particularly remain with me to this day. The first was going to a youth club and hearing A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procal Harum for the first time - it must have been played every week at the club that summer. The second is saving up enough money from my Saturday job to go to the record shop - asking to listen to the latest hit in the booth, buying it and taking it home on the bus to play on the family Dansette player.
