Born in the 1960s?
Here's what shaped your world.
SWINGING SIXTIES AND BEATLEMANIA
The 1960s belonged to Britain — Beatlemania swept the world, Mary Quant invented the miniskirt, and Carnaby Street was the centre of cool. Football came home with the 1966 World Cup, and a young, confident generation rewrote the cultural rulebook.
Life in the 1960s
Pint of Beer
13p
Average House
£3,800
Prime Minister
Macmillan / Douglas-Home / Wilson
Longest-running UK No. 1s of the 1960s
“It's Now or Never”
Elvis Presley · 1960
“Wonderful Land”
The Shadows · 1962
“Sugar, Sugar”
The Archies · 1969
“Cathy's Clown”
The Everly Brothers · 1960
“I Remember You”
Frank Ifield · 1962
“From Me to You”
The Beatles · 1963
“Green, Green Grass of Home”
Tom Jones · 1966
“Hello, Goodbye”
The Beatles · 1967
“Wooden Heart”
Elvis Presley · 1961
“The Young Ones”
Cliff Richard and the Shadows · 1962
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Popular UK TV Shows of the 1960s
Sunday Night at the London Palladium
ITV
Till Death Us Do Part
BBC One
Coronation Street
ITV
Famous Faces Born in the 1960s
Well-known people born in the same decade as you, not on your birthday.
Guy Ritchie
Filmmaker
10 September 1968
Diana, Princess of Wales
Member of the British royal family
1 July 1961
Nigella Lawson
Food writer & television cook
6 January 1960
Jason Statham
Actor
26 July 1967
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Actress
25 September 1969
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
Peer & author
20 May 1964
Kenneth Branagh
Actor & filmmaker
10 December 1960
George Michael
Singer
25 June 1963
Sources: Wikidata and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
A Car of the 1960s
Mini Cooper
Swinging Sixties icon
Favourite Sweets of the 1960s
Spangles
Toffos
Opal Fruits
Bazooka Joe Gum
Refreshers
Sweet Cigarettes
Top Toys & Games of the 1960s
Action Man
Spirograph
Sindy
Etch A Sketch
Scalextric
Your Generation
Baby Boomer
Born into post-war Britain — rationing, free NHS, the welfare state, and the slow rise of pop culture. The Beatles, kitchen-sink dramas, and the moon landing defined a confident new Britain.
Year by year: the 1960s
Prices, events and music for each year of the decade.
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