Swinging London

Swinging London, the mainly youth-driven culture that exploded in the 1960’s, gave birth to some excellent films, music, and fashion. New, revolutionary, hip, hedonistic, optimistic, modern: all terms that are associated with this scene. The term itself was popularized in the 15 April, 1966 issue of Time magazine. Psychedelic music grew in popularity, no doubt in part to pirate radio stations like ‘Swinging Radio England’ and America became exposed to what it termed the ‘British Invasion’ of rock. Twiggy became a...