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Ode to the 60s...
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B.J. Thompson
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As I sit here in my 21st Century den, listening to the 20 th Century Ghosts from my past...Tom Jones, Sinatra, Burt Bacharach , Dean Martin, Janis Joplin, The Beach Boys, it makes me wonder where the hell all those years went. Wasn't it just yesterday that it was actually sexy to wear pink polka dotted tops and silk scarves in your hair (I'm a girl, okay!) and slow-dance with your date on Saturday nights? Is this just my age and faltering memory colouring those times and I'm choosing to view it all through rose-coloured John Lennon glasses...probably. But as Tom sings sweetly in my ear about yet another love lost, I wonder if, in our hi-tech days, we aren't lacking the "esprit du corps" that we had back in the 60s. Times were still innocent enough and as kids or young teens, we thought we'd invented sex - well, at least free love - and knew it all. We thought we had become jaded with Oswald's bullets in Dealey Plaza and with...
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