- DURATION 4 x 90 mins
Event Description
The Sixties - an unbelievable decade of change and starkly contrasting themes. and pop music reflected those changes. From sweetness and innocence, through cultural and racial conflicts, war and peace, the summer of love and the cocktail of sex drugs and rock and roll. A worldwide drama in four acts. Join Clive for an enthusiastic look at the history, the music, the successes and failures and the fascinating facts and trivia that tell the story of an amazing decade.
1960-1962 – The Beginning of the End
From innocence and naivety, international events start to bring awareness of the world as a dangerous place. Popular music is in a similar state. It begins with accepted norms for ballads, big band music, classical overtones and hangovers from the fifties and ends with increasing turbulence and a whole new idea of music for youth – and signs of a new youth culture.
1963-1965 – The Melting Pot Heats Up
The world has changed beyond recognition. World destruction is a distinct possibility, a US president has been assassinated, racial tensions escalate in the US and the UK government is rocked by its first episode of sleaze with a minister caught lying to parliament…and the British musical invasion of the US begins with music and names we’ll never forget.
1966-1967 – Summer of Love and Hate, War and Peace
Drug use in the music industry is an open secret with high profile arrests, relatively lenient sentences and reflected in the very nature of the music itself. Timothy Leary’s phrase, "turn on, tune in, drop out". shapes the entire hippie counterculture, as it voices the key ideas of 1960s rebellion. The pirates are losing battles but winning the war with the BBC and the British establishment
1968-1970 – Altered Minds and New Horizons
The contrasting co-existences moving throughout society reach new heights as the sixties draw to an end. Movements to achieve peace between nations, an end to war, civil rights and racial harmony become stronger and, at the same time, suffer massive losses. Pop music embraces protest, a musical hero is reborn and the end comes for those we thought immortal.
- Duration: 4 x 90 mins
- Online Zoom event: Join from your computer, phone or tablet (no replay available)
Meet the Host, Clive
Clive’s love of music and singing was encouraged at an early age and he won a choral scholarship to Bristol Cathedral School at age 10. A few years of six days a week evensong and matins on Sunday was a wonderful musical foundation – and probably rescued him from the mischiefs of early teenage years. Set free in 1967 he immersed himself in just about anything but church music. Moving to Birmingham he discovered whole new cultures he had not experienced – and the music that came with them. Working in the hotel and catering industry allowed access to rock superstars – Black Sabbath, Bowie, McCartney and more. Working as a waiter at The Elbow Room in Aston he was exposed to an infamous haunt of musicians and some of the shadier characters that accompanied them.
More recently Clive has trained as a classical baritone and sings in several choirs, both as a soloist and member of the basses. His musical tastes (perhaps as a result of his life experiences) range from Handel to Hendrix and everything in between – and his undying love of music shows through in his informed but light-hearted approach to recent musical history.
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