50 years

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It is nearly 50 years since man landed on the moon. Also nearly 50 years since the peace n love of Woodstock. Just unbelievable.
What other great 50's are coming up?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Just over 50 years since the first era of UK offshore pirate radio came to an end, after the two Radio Caroline ships were towed in by the tender supply company for non-payment for services.

Of course, offshore pirate radio reappeared in the 70s, and later again in the 80s.

 

[danny la rouge]

I thought you were going to say since you started posting on Urban. I was going to ask how many trophy points it earns you.

 

[krtek a houby]

Nearly 50 years since The Beatles did the White Album. And 30 years since I first listened to it.

Revolution 9 still does my head in.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Here's the UK top 30 for late August 1968:

Official Singles Chart Top 40 | Official Charts Company

Any day now Hey Jude is going to be released.

Na na na na

Meanwhile Soviet troops are all over Czechoslovakia like a rash and tomorrow Sobers is going to get six sixes in one over.



And I am 11.

ETA: In November when I'm 12 I'm going to buy Albatross by Fleetwood Mac with some of my birthday money. My first record purchase apart from Pinky and Perky.

 

[Pickman's model]

50 years since nixon won his first term

 

[Celyn]

I really thought that a name of Sir Garfild Sobers would be a joke, but apparently he was real. Oh well, cricket and daft names.


Edit: Oops. Sorry, it is not that he *was* real, but that he *is* real:Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers. Garfield Sobers - Wikipedia
Wonderful name.

Possibly tricky though, in a pub or a hotel "Good evening. I am Mr Sobers and I would like a drink, please."

 

[mauvais]

50 years of Trojan Records.

 

[JimW]

Fifty years next month since the RUC attack on Derry civil rights marchers.

 

[bimble]

My dad went all sentimental (more than usual) last week, on the day it was 50 years since Russia sent tanks in to Czechoslovakia where he's from, after which he never went home again and got to stay here in the uk.

 

[LDC]

Just passed 50 years since the convulsions of May '68.

 

[Celyn]

My dad went all sentimental (more than usual) last week, on the day it was 50 years since Russia sent tanks in to Czechoslovakia where he's from, after which he never went home again and got to stay here in the uk.

Which makes a fine point for those of us who would only mention music we were to young for.

 

[krtek a houby]

My Lai happened back in March, but the full horror would take another year or so to be revealed. Only one US soldier was convicted - hundreds were massacred.

 

[Sweet FA]

This year marks 50 years of me

 

[philosophical]

I was a very alert and impressionable 15 year old then, and all the things mentioned (and stuff earlier) feels very contemporary to me.
the Russian tanks, Gary Sobers the White Album still feel to me to have a kind of freshness as a vibrant event that was part of shaping my life.
It was also the year I lost my innocence as it were, and I remember that like it was yesterday.

 

[brogdale]

 

[hash tag]

My Lai happened back in March, but the full horror would take another year or so to be revealed. Only one US soldier was convicted - hundreds were massacred.

Jees, thank you, thats just knocked the stuffing out of me. I cycled around Viet Nam a few years ago and that must have been one of the most moving, tragic places I have ever visited followed by Marble Mountain

 

[krtek a houby]

Jees, thank you, thats just knocked the stuffing out of me. I cycled around Viet Nam a few years ago and that must have been one of the most moving, tragic places I have ever visited followed by Marble Mountain

Liked but not liked, iykwim. Would love to visit there one day.

 

[philosophical]

I also remember 1968 as a year of 'revolution' that followed 1967 which was (the original?) the 'Summer of Love'.
I was there in Grosvenor Square.

Grosvenor Square Anti-Vietnam Riots

 

[Fozzie Bear]

50 years since the Stonewall riots next year.

 

[Reno]

50 years since Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey got released.





Watch Stanley Kubrick explain the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[seventh bullet]

My Lai happened back in March, but the full horror would take another year or so to be revealed. Only one US soldier was convicted - hundreds were massacred.

And the Tet Offensive back in January.

 

[cybershot]

If ever there was a thread to make you feel old.

 

[hash tag]

Zeppelin were formed in '68 and their first album was recorded in October
What ever happened to them?

 

[twentythreedom]

50 years since Sir Robin Knox-Johnston left to start the world's first single handed, unassisted, non stop circumnavigation of the planet, with a marine chronograph, sextant and lots of tins of beans

 

[hash tag]

How did that compare to Francis Chichester who did his thing around that time?

 

[twentythreedom]

How did that compare to Francis Chichester who did his thing around that time?

Chichester stopped in Australia.

I've sailed Gipsy Moth IV, Chichester's boat

 

[hash tag]

Ah, OK, cheers. I've seen it

 

[hash tag]

The M1 reached all the way up to Yorkshire.

 

[Sweet FA]

And the Tet Offensive back in January.

Attack on Saigon began at pretty much the exact time I was born.