in a D.A.(Duck's Arse) style, like john Travolta in "Grease". This was really a hangover from the 1950s but the Mods and the Rockers would meet up for huge pitched battles, usually at a seaside resort like Brighton or Bournemouth at Bank Holiday weekends. The other huge change that occurred in the 60s was the advent of "The Pill". For the first time women could control their fertility and so the era of so-called "free love" was born and women became much more sexually liberated. As for politics, we were in the middle of the "Cold War". The Berlin Wall was built in 1961, (I was there at the time) and there was huge suspicion and mistrust between East and West.The Space race was in full swing between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. and Britain watched fascinated. The young President John Kennedy and his beautiful young wife were great favourites with us Brits, especially as he had, we felt, averted a nuclear war at the Bay of Pigs crisis in Cuba. We still looked to the U.S.A. for the latest films and fashion and loved reading about our favourite film stars although we were fed an official studio version of their glamorous lives. Nothing like the exposes of today. In general,it was a great time to be young and we felt a freedom that we hadn't felt before and, certainly in terms of fashion, style, music and general "cool," Britain led the World. Freebird has given you a good background