They always say that if you can remember the sixties then you weren't really there. The truth is that for many of us who were at the right age (I was 16 at the beginning of the decade) there were so many things happening that we've all got loads of memories.

Over here in England, the Folk Boom started in the early 60s - probably as an extension of the skiffle and protest song movements. Strangely enough many of us started off with American material and gradually moved through Scottish and Irish before we found English music by the middle of the decade. By the late 60s, you could find folk clubs anywhere you went - I was moving all over on I.T. (well we actually called it D.P. - Data Processing in those days) contracts and I always managed to find somewhere to sing.

One of the main social changes was that people started moving away from home fairly young, rather than waiting until they got married, which was the norm up till then.