sixties

Critique: FSU's Sons of the Sixties is a behind-the-scenes tour college football at 1960's Florida State University.

They recount many of the iconic moments of the Sixties, such as the Cuban missile crisis, the Cold War, the student uprisings of '68 and the assassination of John F Kennedy .

Ronald Reagan had been running against the sixties when he was governor of California and continually spoke out against the excesses of the era when he was president.

SIXTIES-ESQUE SHAPES The most distinguishable element of Sixties styling is all in the silhouette - think sleek, minimalist shapes that look uber-modern but with that allimportant hint of mod.

Many of the creators and innovators of the Sixties were British, a fact we can all be proud of, so in recognition of such everlasting achievements, The Overtures have devised a special concert - The Bootleg Sixties - which is at the Playhouse Whitley Bay on Wednesday.

Recently, however, scholarship on the Sixties has expanded dramatically and various academics have challenged existing assumptions in order to tell a different story.

Many of the creators and innovators of the Sixties were, of course, British so in recognition of such everlasting achievements, The Overtures have devised a special concert The Bootleg Sixties.

The Batmobile is a faithful recreation of the Sixties originals and was built on a Lincoln Continental chassis in 1988.

Almost 150 Sixties types turned up at Newcastle City Library to hear a talk on the times by Ponteland fashion historian Caroline Whitehead as part of Local History Month activities.

A popular saying of the Sixties was that one could "find god at the bottom of a Dixie cup".

A YOUNG lass said to me the other day: "I wish I had been around in the Sixties - it must have been great!"

SIXTIES ICON could be back out again at Newbury on Saturday week following his triumphant return to form in the Glorious Stakes at Goodwood.

BACKING Sixties Icon at Goodwood will not get anyone rich - but it is tough to look elsewhere in the Letheby & Christopher Festival Stakes.