Displaying items by tag: Swinging Sixties

On Wednesday nights, households across the UK would tune in to watch BBC's The Wednesday Play, an anthology drama that ran for six series, October 1964 to May 1970. The Wednesday Play was popular, as the plots often reflected contemporary life; therefore, the viewer could relate to the production.

Ian Andrew Robert Stewart was born in 1938 in Pittenweem, in Fife, Scotland. He was raised in Sutton, London, and started playing piano when he was six, later he took up the banjo.

Amen Corner was formed in Cardiff, Wales in 1966.

Although it was originally called buta or boteh, meaning “flower,” People have seen resemblances to lotus flowers, a mango, a leech, yin and yang, a dragon, and a cypress pine.

Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie was born in 1948 in Lennox Castle, Lennoxtown, Scotland, the daughter of a butcher. Marie grew up in Dennistoun, Glasgow, where she attended Thomson Street Primary School and Onslow Drive Junior School.

Janis Lyn Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1943. She had two younger siblings, Michael and Laura Growing up her parents felt Janis needed more attention than their other children and at school, she was never part of the crowd and proved to be a misfit.

Narrated by David Hemmings reveals the contrasts and contradictions in the life of Robert Oliver Reed. Born in Wimbledon in 1938,

Scott Engel (1943 - 2019) came from Ohio and was a teen idol in the making in the late 50s, making several appearances on Eddie Fisher's TV series (Carrie Fisher’s father).