The thing was not so much all these people - it was something that happened within ourselves. Apparently simple songs like Where have all the flowers gone and Blowing in the wind - somehow without articulating it, they advanced a theory that there was a means of self expression open to us all. and it happened at a time when the world seemed close to a nuclear holocaust - so it made us look dmaned hard at what me might be losing.

The stars and the later ethnicity - they didn't have the impact except on the zealots like ourselves. That was just how it took some people.

anyway that's how I remember it.

all the best

big al whittle