And the ones which didn’t quite make the cut:
Dionne Warwick – Do You Know The Way To San José – 06-68
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The Watchtower – 11-68
The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup -12-68
O.C. Smith – Son Of Hickory Holler’s Tramp – 06-68
Dusty Springfield – I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten – 07-68
Status Quo – Pictures Of Matchstick Men – 02-68
The Move – Fire Brigade – 02-68
Simon & Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson – 07-68
Esther & Abi Ofarim – Cinderella Rockafella – 02-68
Bobby Goldsboro – Honey – 05-68
Scaffold – Lily The Pink – 11-68
The Tremeloes – Suddenly You Love Me – 02-68
The Kinks – Days – 08-68
The Four Tops – If I Were A Carpenter – 03-68
John Fred & His Playboy Band – Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) – 01-68
Herman’s Hermits – Sunshine Girl – 08-68
The Hollies – Jennifer Eccles – 04-68
The Honeybus – I Can’t Let Maggie Go – 04-68
Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days – 09-68
Jacky – White Horses – 05-68
Manfred Mann – My Name Is Jack – 07-68

1960s Prices

One pound in 1960 was quite a bit of money. The average manual worker made £14 in a week. 30 shillings (£1.50) would feed the average person for a week. In today’s money one pound in 1960 is about £29.
People were a lot poorer in the 1960s. The average weekly pay packet was less than £10 per week. Allowing for inflation that is £150 in today’s money. Today average weekly earnings are more than £600.

Typical groceries people bought in the 1960s were:

Item	Cost 1965	In today’s money	Typical price today
Bread (large loaf)	1s 2½d	£1	59p to £1.10
Butter (1lb)	1s 3d to 2s 10d	80p to £1.81	£3.45 (500g)
Margarine (1lb)	1s 3d to 2s 10d	80p to £1.81	£1.80 (500g Flora Spreadable)
Back bacon (pre-packed, smoked per lb)	4s 10d to 7s 10d	£3.09 to £5	£2.39 to £4.50 (500g)
Eggs – 1 dozen	3s 8d to 4s 6d	£1.22 to £2.87	£1.80 to £3.00
Evaporated milk	1s to 1s 4d	63p to 85p	70p to £1.20
Baked beans (16oz tin)	9d to 1s 3d	48p to 80p	75p
Corned beef (12 oz tin)	1s 11d to 4s 1d	69p to £1.12	£2.60 (340g)
Cornflakes (12 oz)	1s 4d to 1s 10d	85p to £1.17	£1.30 (375g Sainsbury’s SO)
Sugar (2lb)	1s 3d to 1s 9d	80p to £1.12	75p (1kg Sainsbury’s)
Tea (loose leaf PG Tips ¼lb	1s 4½d to 1s 9d	85p to £1.23	£2 for 250g (approx ½1b

1. The Move – Flowers In The Rain – 09-67
2. The Monkees – I’m A Believer – 01-67
3. Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale – 06-67
4. Aretha Franklin – Respect – 07-67
5. The Small Faces – Itchycoo Park – 09-67
6. Traffic – Hole In My Shoe – 09-67
7. The Supremes – The Happening – 06-67
8. The Four Tops – Walk Away Renee – 12-67
9. Nancy & Frank Sinatra – Somethin’ Stupid – 04-67
10. Cliff Richard – The Day I Met Marie – 09-67
11. Petula Clark – Don’t Sleep In The Subway – 07-67
12. Sandie Shaw – Puppet On A String – 04-67
13. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – Zabadak – 10-67

And so, so many which nearly made the cut.
Keith West – Excerpt From A Teenage Opera – 09-67
The Who – Happy Jack – 01-67
Manfred Mann – Ha Ha Said The Clown – 04-67
The Alan Price Set – Simon Smith & His Amazing Dancing Bear – 03-67
Jeff Beck – Hi-Ho Silver Lining – 05-67
The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset – 05-67
The Bee Gees – Massachusetts – 10-67
The Beatles – Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever – 02-67
The Flowerpot Men – Let’s Go To San Francisco – 09-67
Engelbert Humperdinck – Release Me – 02-67
Paul Jones – I’ve Been A Bad Bad Boy – 02-67
The Mamas & The Papas – Dedicated To The One I Love – 05-67
Scott McKenzie – San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) – 07-67
The Tremeloes – Even The Bad Times Are Good – 08-67
Stevie Wonder – I Was Made To Love Her – 08-67
The Young Rascals – Groovin’ – 06-67
The Troggs – Love Is All Around – 11-67
The Spencer Davis Group – I’m A Man – 02-67
Cat Stevens – Matthew And Son – 01-67
The Tremeloes – Silence Is Golden – 05-67
The Monkees – Daydream Believer – 12-67
The Seekers – Georgy Girl – 03-67
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze – 04-67
Bobby Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe – 10-67
The Turtles – Happy Together – 04-67
The Four Tops – Bernadette – 04-67
The Johnny Mann Singers – Up Up And Away – 08-67
The Foundations – Baby, Now That I Found You – 10-67
Engelbert Humperdinck – The Last Waltz – 09-67

Women’s Hair

Men’s Hair

1960s Makeup

The early 60s saw the exaggerated cat eye and full red lip continue. Eyebrows were shaped into subtle peak instead of a high curve. Pink blush was subtle and almost non-existent.
• Powder – Flesh tone.
• Blush – Soft rose pink.
• Eye Shadow – White-pink, purple, light blue, aqua.
• Eye Liner – Dark brown or black, top and bottom lined and extended outwards.
• Lipstick – Deep pink, orange-red.
• Eyebrows – Shaped into a soft peak.

The babydoll look was “in” in the mid 60s. Pale white skin, white lips, bold black eyeliner and heavy eyeshadow made it distinct and dramatic. It was a stark contrast to the girly look of clothing until the mid ’60s, when a layer of childishness was added. Eyes were exaggerated with extra long lashes, shimmer eyeshadow, arched brows, light spot blush, and lips turned to a baby pink pout. Looking back, the combination was a scene from a child-meets-ax-murderer horror movie.
• Powder – Pale, almost white.
• Blush – Warm brown/bronze sculpted the cheeks under the cheekbone.
• Eye Shadow – Frosty-pink, green, blue.
• Eye Liner – Dark brown or black.
• Lipstick – Peach, shimmer pink outlined in a darker lip liner. Slightly overdrawn in the top corners.
• Eye lashes – Add fake eyelashes to top and bottom.
• Eyebrows – Natural and feathered.

For deep skin tones, the pasty white look wouldn’t work, but the other shaping and drawing techniques would still apply. The goal was to create a face that glowed, with dramatic eyes and full lips.
• Powder – Matching skin tone. Foundation: matte.
• Blush – Warm brown/bronze sculpted the cheeks under the cheekbone. Lighter bronze on the cheek apple, nose and chin.
• Eye Shadow – Dark pink, green, blue.
• Eye Liner – Black.
• Lipstick – Deep pink, peach, shimmer pink, red-pink, nude.
• Eye lashes – Add fake eyelashes to top and bottom.
• Eyebrows – Arched in the early years. Peaked in the later years.

The late 60s hippie makeup was the opposite of the Mods (although 1966-1968 hippies wore the mod look.) All natural was the way to go, although many women couldn’t quite adjust to wearing nothing. Instead, they opted for light brown mascara and a clear gloss lip. Face powder was used sparingly as well as a blusher.
• Powder – None or matching skin tone
• Blush – Light pink-brown blush on apples
• Eye Shadow – Skintone colors
• Eye Liner – Top lash brown
• Lipstick – Clear lip gloss or a touch of light pink
• Eye lashes – Light mascara
• Eyebrows – Arched naturally

And bubbling under:
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – Bend It – 10-66
Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ – 02-66
Cher – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) – 04-66
The Supremes – You Can’t Hurry Love – 09-66
Cilla Black – Alfie – 04-66
Frank Sinatra – Strangers In The Night – 05-66
The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black – 05-66
Dusty Springfield – You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me – 04-66
Percy Sledge – When A Man Loves A Woman – 06-66
The Beatles – Paperback Writer – 06-66
Petula Clark – I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love – 07-66
The Hollies – Bus Stop – 07-66
Paul Jones – High Time – 11-66
The Kinks – Dedicated Follower Of Fashion – 03-66
LosBravos – Black Is Black – 07-66
The Mamas & The Papas – Monday Monday – 05-66
Manfred Mann – Semi-Detached Suburban Mr.James – 11-66
Chris Montez – The More I See You – 07-66
The New Vaudeville Band – Winchester Cathedral – 10-66
Jimmy Ruffin – What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted – 12-66
The Sandpipers – Guantanamera – 10-66
The Seekers – Morningtown Ride-12-66
Simon & Garfunkel – Homeward Bound – 05-66
The Spencer Davis Group – Keep On Runnin’ – 01-66
The Troggs – Wild Thing – 05-66
The Who – Substitute – 04-66

Fontella Bass – Rescue Me – 12-65
Georgie Fame – Yeh Yeh – 01-65
The Bachelors – Marie – 06-65
The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody – 09-65
Jonathan King – Everyone’s Gone To The Moon – 08-65
The Fortunes – You’ve Got Your Troubles – 07-65
The Supremes – Stop! In The Name Of Love – 04-65
Gerry & The Pacemakers – Ferry Across The Mersey – 01-65
Roger Miller – King Of The Road – 05-65
Marcello Minerbi – Zorba’s Dance – 08-65
The Rolling Stones – Get Off Of My Cloud – 11-65
The Seekers – The Carnival Is Over – 11-65
Sandie Shaw – Long Live Love – 05-65
The Who – My Generation – 11-65
The Animals – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place – 07-65
Bob Dylan – Times They Are A-Changin’ – 04-65
Horst Jankowski – A Walk In The Black Forest – 08-65
Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas – Trains And Boats And Planes – 06-65
Elvis Presley – Crying In The Chapel – 06-65
Dusty Springfield – In The Middle Of Nowhere – 07-65
Them – Here Comes The Night – 04-65
Jackie Trent – Where Are You Now (My Love) – 05-65
The Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – 09-65

Since WW2 and the following years of rationing, most British household’s preferred way of eating was based on “meat and two veg.” The following are some of the most popular dishes in 1960s UK, top of the list being Sunday roast with chicken, beef, pork or lamb.

And the more exotic creeping in (especially in dinner parties):
Meatballs
Chicken a la king
Duck a l’orange
Beef Bourguignon
Spaghetti Bolognese
Pigs in blankets
Vol au vents
Shrimp/prawn cocktail
Pineapple and cheese ‘hedgehog’
Fondue
Ritz crackers with Dairylea cheese triangles
Vesta curries and Chow mein

And for afters:
Ambrosia rice pudding
Pineapple upside down cake
Baked Alaska
Tunnel of fudge cake
Mousse (jelly + evaporated milk)
Angel delight/Instant whip
Sherry trifle

1. The Searchers – Needles And Pins 01-64
2. Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas – Little Children – 03-64
3. Peter & Gordon – A World Without Love – 04-64
4. The Animals – House Of The Rising Sun – 07-64
5. The Bachelors – Ramona – 06-64
6. Cilla Black – Anyone Who Had A Heart – 02-64
7. Petula Clark – Downtown – 12-64
8. Doris Day – Move Over Darling – 04-64
9. The Dave Clark Five – Bits And Pieces – 02-64
10. The Kinks – You Really Got Me – 08-64
11. Kathy Kirby – Secret Love – 11-63
12. Sandie Shaw – Always Something There To Remind Me – 10-64
13. Dusty Springfield – I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself – 07-64

And here’s the ones which make it into the top 13.
Dionne Warwick – Walk On By – 05-64
Dave Berry – The Crying Game – 09-64
The Merseybeats – Wishin’ And Hopin’ – 08-64
Mary Wells – My Guy – 06-64
The Honeycombs – Have I The Right? – 08-64
Manfred Mann – Do Wah Diddy Diddy – 07-64
The Kinks – All Day And All Of The Night – 11-64
The Zombies – She’s Not There – 09-64
The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night – 07-64
The Shangri-Las – Remember (Walkin’ In The Sand) – 11-64
Freddie & The Dreamers – You Were Made For Me – 11-63
The Beach Boys – I Get Around – 08-64
The Supremes – Baby Love – 11-64
The Hollies – Here I Go Again – 06-64
Dean Martin – Everybody Loves Somebody – 09-64
The Swinging Blue Jeans – The Hippy Hippy Shake – 01-64
Roy Orbison – Oh Pretty Woman – 09-64
The Rolling Stones – It’s All Over Now – 07-64
The Ronettes – Baby I Love You 02-64
Millie – My Boy Lollipop – 04-64

The 1960s saw a dramatic change in menswear – for the past 150 years, clothing for men had been tailor-made, and plain and sombre in appearance. Men’s fashion was generally based on a conservative template people didn’t question: a shirt and tie; a plain, handmade suit; a jumper hand-knitted by a relative. Designer John Stephen opened his first boutique in Carnaby Street in 1957, selling cheap, sharp and colourful suits to men who became an important influence on London’s street style.

By the mid-1960s, fashion-conscious young Londoners were challenging the staid rules of masculine etiquette that had persisted since Victorian times. Circulating in the overlapping worlds of fashion, music, the (newly influential) media and high society, a social group forged a bold new identity – the ‘modern dandy’, unashamed to wear frills, velvet and other elements previously judged to be too feminine for a man. A group of entrepreneurs capitalised on this shift in taste, setting up shops that married traditional tailoring techniques with the design flair of graduates from recently established Menswear courses. Around 1963, two distinct subcultures emerged: Mods and Rockers.

At the end of the decade, violence in Vietnam and student uprisings in France signalled newly aware times, and consumerist enthusiasm for ‘the next new thing’ began to feel inappropriate. A growing interest in historic revival and various cultures encouraged British people to trawl second-hand shops looking for vintage clothes – particularly the fashions of the 1930s and 1940s and men’s suits began to widen again. People sought garments with connections to other parts of the world to create looks through less consumerist means, rejecting the synthetic materials of the earlier part of the decade. Like women’s fashion, menswear turned to Eastern influences, and the boldly patterned suit jacket George Harrison wore in the mid-sixties foreshadowed the style to come.

Massive credit to https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-peacock-revolution-1960s-menswear and https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1960-1969/ and the fabulous Bloshka for taking the legwork out of this for me.

And the ones that got away:
The Ronettes – Be My Baby – 10-63
Peter, Paul & Mary – Blowin’ In The Wind – 11-63
The Singing Nun – Dominique – 12-63
Gerry & The Pacemakers – You’ll Never Walk Alone – 10-63
The Beatles – She Loves You – 08-63
The Crystals – Da Doo Ron Ron – 06-63
The Springfields – Island Of Dreams – 02-63
The Surfaris – Wipe Out – 08-63
Mel Tormé – Coming Home Baby – 01-63
Bobby Vee – The Night Has A Thousand Eyes – 02-63