Shout!
“ELEVEN“EVEN THE JELLY BABIES ARE SYMBOLIC”In 1963, the simple fact was, Britain’s population had become unbalanced by a vast surplus of people under eighteen. The decline in infant mortality, together with the mysterious nonappearance of a third world war, had allowed an entire generation to grow up virtually intact. They were the babies born after 1945 and raised in a Britain struggling to transform itself from postwar drabness to the material well-being so long observed and envied in America.... Cars, radios, washing machines, all the luxuries still cherished by their parents were, to these young people, simply the mundane furniture of life. Television spread the whole world before them, to be casually viewed and judged. In 1960, the kindly Macmillan government abolished the two-year period of compulsory military service that had shaped young men’s lives since the end of World War II. For those between sixteen and twenty-one no obligation remained save that of spending their ever-increasing pocket money on the amusements demanded by their ever-quickening glands.Pop music was the most obvious sign of youth’s growing economic power.MoreLess
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