I was talking to a bloke at one of the gigs I went to last week. We chatted mostly about jazz, but got into gigs generally.

He said that the first gig he went to was the Beatles, with the Yardbirds as support (and Hughie Green as the MC) at the Hammersmith Odeon.

His father took him; he was nine.

A quick search pulls up a Christmas show in 1964.

What a start to a gig-going career! Sixty one years of music.

#music #theBeatles #theSixties

This is number 2 of 4 of my latest music collection. A red candy apple Fender Stratocaster hand-stitched onto white aida fabric.
#fenderStratocaster #music #rockNRoll #theFifties #theSixties #retro #vintage #textileArtist #fibreArtist #embroidery #textileArt #fibreArt

Back on Medium this weekend. Honoring the amazing Janis Joplin on the 55th year since her tragic passing.

Please visit my page and tell me what your favorite Janis tune is.

https://medium.com/@kalugo/janis-joplin-55-years-ago-today-298f5b41731b

#JanisJoplin
#Pearl
#TheSixties

The Sixties Come Back to Life in “Everything Is Now”

Richard Brody reviews J. Hoberman’s “Everything Is Now,” a cultural memoir of the downtown avant-garde in 1960s New York.

The New Yorker

Lesbians

From a 1965 episode of This Week with host Bryan Magee

#thisweek #bryanmagee #lesbians #thesixties #the60s #1960s #homosexuality #womenlovingwomen #thewaybackmachine