Gene Pitney 1966 – Nobody Needs Your Love
The year 1966 was a seismic shift. The world felt the tremor of Revolver and Pet Sounds, the new sound…
Oldies Songs
Helen Shapiro 1966 – It Might As Well Rain Until September
The air in the café was thick and grey that afternoon, the kind of weather that felt less like a…
Cat Stevens 1966 – Matthew And Son
The year is 1966. London is humming, caught between the tail-end of Mod’s sharp lines and the coming psychedelic swirl.…
The Kinks 1965 – Set Me Free
I remember standing in the record shop aisle, the vinyl almost radiating a low, nostalgic heat under the fluorescents. It…
Cream 1967 – I Feel Free
It’s late, the city is quiet, and the only light comes from the glow of the turntable. The needle drops.…
The Move 1969 – Blackberry Way
The scene is set not in some sun-drenched, technicolor fantasia of the late sixties, but in a relentless, grey downpour.…
The Love Affair 1969 – One Road
The air is always thin at the top. For a fleeting moment in the late Sixties, The Love Affair—or, more…
Donovan 1966 – Mellow Yellow
The year is 1964. The airwaves are thick with the amiable swagger of the Mersey sound, a clean, propulsive tide…
The Honeycombs 1964 – Have I The Right
The year is 1964. The airwaves are thick with the amiable swagger of the Mersey sound, a clean, propulsive tide…
Marianne Faithfull 1965 – What Have They Done To The Rain
The light in the café was always a bruised yellow, the kind of weak London winter light that seemed to…