The Doors perfectly captured the mood of those last days of sunshine before the days get shorter and the leaves start to turn and fall.  (more…)

The Monkees’ TV show was one of the first things I ever saw when my family moved briefly back to England from Germany in 1967.

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Country Joe & The Fish is a name I remember hearing in my youth, though I don’t remember hearing any of their records.

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Tony Clarke never had a big hit in his lifetime but is revered here for one of the biggest Northern Soul favourites of all time – Landslide. (more…)

This was the first single The Impressions released with Curtis Mayfield as lead singer. (more…)

This song by one-hit wonders The Castaways is the archetypal Sixties garage song. I first heard it on the Nuggets compilation a decade or so after its original release in 1965. (more…)

This song immediately evokes a poignant childhood memory for me, from a family holiday in Cornwall in the summer of ’69.

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This long-forgotten garage band was the first group my friend Craig Poland Smith ever got to see, at East Aurora High School in upstate New York in 1965.

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I haven’t a clue whether this 1967 Dylan parody by The Hombres is meant to be taken seriously or not.

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I have no doubt that if I’d been born ten years earlier my favourite genre would have been freakbeat. So I would have loved The Golden Cups.

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