Great British Icons: British 60's Music DVD

BRITISH SOUND OF THE 60 S DVD: The 1960 s was simply the most exciting decade in music history known to man. The eruption of talent after the discovery of the Mersey Sound changed the world. What was special was that for a short but glorious and colourful period of time, hardly a week went by without some new creative talent emerging on our airwaves and a new direction in music being created. Looking back at the charts week by week you realise that there was an explosion in song writing, a huge growth in people being interested in music and as a result some really... great sounds were made. This is brilliant music from TV performances at the time, starring some of the greatest British acts of the decade: The Animals - Baby Let Me Take You Home, The Searchers - What Have They Done to the Rain, Herman s Hermits - Something is Happening, Dave Berry - Now, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch - Hold Tight!, Billy Fury - Ain t Nothin Shakin , Brian Auger and the Trinity - Road to Cairo, Cat Stevens - Mathew and Son, Herman s Hermits - My Reservation s Been Confirmed, The Mindbenders - Groovy Kind of Love, P.P. Arnold - The First Cut is the Deepest, The Move - I Can Hear the Grass Grow, The Smoke - My Friend Jack, The Small Faces - All or Nothing, The Kinks - Til the End of the Day, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch - Hideaway, The Troggs You Can t Beat It, The Yardbirds - Shapes of Things. LITTLE BOOK OF BRITISH 60 s MUSIC: The 1960 s was simply the most exciting decade in music history known to man. The eruption of talent after the discovery of the Mersey Sound, spearheaded of course by the Fab Four, changed the world. What was special was that for a glorious and colourful short period of time, hardly a week went by without some new creative talent emerging on our airwaves, some new direction in music being created; something fresh to excite us being presented for our edification. Looking back at the charts week by week you realise that there was an explosion in song writing, a huge growth in people being interested in music and as a result some really great sounds were made. In this book we have not tried to quantify that, or even order those bands and artists who helped to change our society and our way of looking at it, but we have created a top 40 of artists that simply could not be ignored for what they did. [show more]

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