• Deep Dive 3: 60's Psych Pop🌸

  • Apr 23 2022
  • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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Deep Dive 3: 60's Psych Pop🌸

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  • 60s Psych Pop: This Deep Dive will visit what will be, to many, familiar subject matter. You may ask yourself, ‘What’s so leftfield about this lot? Almost every track was a chart hit after all.’ And yes, you would be correct, but when seen in the context of what came before, it represents something akin to an earthquake – the literal birth of a cultural medium still with us to this day. Before the arrival of bands such as Cream, The Small Faces, The Who, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, there was very, very little. Take away a couple of exceptions (Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Link Wray cases in point) and the world’s radios were awash with parent-friendly crooners and novelty comedy singles. With the arrival of bands like The Byrds, The Zombies and Love, the charts became suddenly vital and vibrant in equal measure. Colour – trippy, psychedelic colour for that matter - had arrived. TV sets began transmitting in yellow, blue, red, and green and this incredible music, perhaps more than anything else, summed up the spirit of the age best. There was virtually full employment; rationing and austerity were dead. Youth culture had arrived, and with its newfound consumerism came the opportunity for savvy record labels to prise this disposable income from baby boomers’ pockets. By the decade’s end, the pop charts had become a way of life, and with such wonderful music on offer, the 3-minute single had, in a very short space of time, become a perfected art form. It could never last – nothing ever stays the same – and by the mid-1970s the album had begun to take the single’s place as the punter’s preferred medium; but for a golden, ever-so-brief chunk of time and space, the psychedelic single ruled. Come and join Crispy on a trip back to a time when it all had to be said in four minutes or less. Artists include The Small Faces, Donovan, The Who, The Stooges, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds and The Zombies - groovy man! 
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