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Article: Such sweet memories of those good old Sixties; Sixties survivor Tony Henderson on a new collection of memories on how the celebrated decade played out in a fast-changing Newcastle.
- Article from:
- The Journal (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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MORE than 40 years on and the Sixties are still the subject of scrutiny on screen and in print. But then, the decade was a time of astonishing and radical change in just about every aspect of life - music, clothes, politics, the economy, education, social freedom, the contraceptive pill, individualism and in the very fabric of the city of Newcastle itself.
As a very special time laced with unbounded optimism, it is no surprise that it still figures so strongly.
Now the 1960s, as they unfolded in Newcastle, have been recorded in a book, launched last night, ...