A SARABAND FOR THE SIXTIES The Sixties were not so much a decade, an era, an epoch, as a very long happening. Its personality was vibrant, brash, moody, young, and perhaps pathetically transient.
It was the age of affluence and adolescence and Alfie. And London, with a Cockney accent, was primarily where it fermented, flourished, and finally finished.
For those who played the game they called The Swinging Sixties, the rules were a glorious amalgam of fatalism and farce and anarchical ambition..
