Can you tell me a story about the 60's and make me dream again?

Question

Man, I'm looking for a poet, I'm looking for Dylan...

So far, 7 answers, no one is making me dream.

Answer 1

I'm like you, I can't remember them. Hell, it was good, wasn't it?

Answer 2

1967 was the year for movies and the best way to see them was at the drive-in theaters.
The Graduate
Bonnie & Clyde
Camelot
Coolhand Lke
Dirty Dozen

The popular songs in this year were
Brown Eyed Girl
Natural Women
Up Up and Away
Penny Lane
I'm a believer

Answer 3

1969. For months you sat in anticipation of the moon shot, 'cause Sinclair Paints announced on their commercials that Neil Armstrong would be the first man to walk on the moon.

Then the day came, and Neil Armstrong said...
"That's one small step for man... one giant leap for mankind"
and you couldn't help thinking, "OH MY GOSH! He blew his line!"

Answer 4

Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea

Answer 5

Most countries in Africa started gaining independence from their European (colonial) oppressors.

Answer 6

let me take you down...
because were going too...
Strawberry fields
where nothing is real
and nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever.

Ichicoo park is where i been!
What did you do there?
I got high!
What did you touch there?
I touched the sky
-its all too beautiful -

Answer 7

1960 - UK seeks entry to Europe
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Britain will ask to join EEC

Mr Macmillan, a weary-looking father figure, at last held out his hand yesterday and offered to try to lead the Commons and the country into Europe, if he can find the way. There was a good deal of kicking and screaming and this was to be expected.
1961 - Russia puts a man in orbit


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What it feels like in space

Major Yuri Gagarin described today how it felt to be the first man in space - how he was able to write and work and how he burst out singing for joy as his ship plunged back towards the earth. "Everything was easier to perform? legs and arms weighed nothing," he told an interviewer.

1962 - The Cuban missile crisis
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The Cuban crisis
People who thought the Cuban crisis was easing - and who sent Stock Exchange prices rising - had better think again. The situation is still full of danger.

1963 - The shooting of JFK
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President Kennedy assassinated
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was shot during a motorcade drive through downtown Dallas this afternoon. He died in the emergency room of the Parkland Memorial Hospital 32 minutes after the attack. He was 46 years old


1964 - Beatlemania
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Beatle hysteria hits US

Physically, the Beatle invasion was launched just after 1 p.m. when their air liner touched down to pandemonium at Kennedy Airport. But in fact New York has been in the tightening grip of Beatlemania for some weeks.

1965 - The Vietnam war
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US paratroops go into attack against Vietcong
An Australian battalion joined United States paratroops and South Vietnamese forces today in an attack on a Vietcong stronghold about 30 miles north of Saigon. This was the first time US troops were employed in an offensive role.

1966 - England wins the World Cup
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Footballers

To the accompaniment of expressions of praise, thanksgiving, and, in some cases, undisguised disbelief, England became football champions of the world by defeating West Germany 4-2 on Saturday at Wembley.

1967 - The six-day war
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Israeli forces hit back - and cut off Gaza town
Fighting broke out today on all Israel's borders with its Arab neighbours. Official Israeli statements said that attacks had been launched in the area of the Negev, in Jerusalem, and along the Syrian border near Dagania.

1968 - The soixante-huitards
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Paris gripped by insurrection
An insurrection, there is no other word for it, swept a stupefied Paris last night in the hours that followed General de Gaulle's television address.


1969 - Neil Armstrong takes one small step
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The Moonwalkers

Men are on the moon. At 3:39 am this morning - nearly four hours ahead of schedule - Armstrong, the lunar module commander, opened the hatch and clambered slowly down to the surface of the moon


1960s
This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1960s. For an in-depth article on the cultural and social trends of the decade, please see The Sixties

Millennia:
1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium
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Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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Decades:
1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s
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Years:
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969



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Events and trends
The 1960s was one of the most turbulent decades experienced world-wide. Many of the trends of the 1960s were due to the demographic changes brought about by the baby boom generation, the height of the Cold War, and the dissolution of European colonial empires. The rise in social revolution, civil rights movements, human rights movement, anti-War movements, and the Counterculture movement are only some of the characteristics that defined the 1960s. Many experts attribute the 1960s "counter-culture revolution" as being the result of the major social and political factors that rose in the 1950s like brinksmanship, continued fighting in the 3rd world, and a return to pre-WWII lifestyle. The new generation was determined to reject a pre-WWII conformist lifestyle with men in suits and women in the kitchen. While many believed it to be just a "Western" phenomenon, the 60s revolution spread far beyond the borders of America and Western Europe. In South America, revolutions were at a height, in the Eastern Bloc, movements were made inspired by the Hungarian Revolution to reject Soviet domination, and in the Middle East attempted to resist Soviet and American domination (see Non-Aligned Movement). Overall, the 60s affected the entire globe (See The Sixties.)

Technology
USSR puts first man (Yuri Gagarin) and first woman (Valentina Tereshkova) in space
The United States puts man on Earth's Moon (see Apollo 11)
Geosynchronous satellites revolutionize global communications
Start of the development of algorithmic information theory
The ARPAnet, precursor of the Internet, is founded in 1969 as a United States Department of Defense project. The numbered series of Request For Comments (RFC) documents begins in order to document the standards and practices of this network, and continues to this day
Direct Use of the Sun's Energy by pioneer solar-energy scientist Farrington Daniels is published (1964)
Compact audio cassette introduced; begins to displace reel-to-reel audio tape recording for home users
Science
Discovery of plate tectonics revolutionizes understanding of continental drift
Jacques Monod and Francois Jacob discover the lac operon
Rise of the science of ecology in the awareness of the intelligentsia
War, peace and politics
Cultural Revolution in mainland China causes political and economic chaos.
Nigerian Civil War begins
6-Day War between Israelis and Arabs
Beginning of The Troubles in Northern Ireland
Berlin Wall built in 1961
Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961, the United States sponsored an attempt to overthrow Cuba's socialist government and Fidel Castro.
Civil rights movement in the United States; end of official segregation and disenfranchisement of African-Americans; racial tensions continue with large race riots in Watts (Los Angeles) in 1966, Detroit in 1967, and Hough and Glenville in Cleveland
Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
The Vietnam War and protests, leading to Kent State University shootings in May, 1970
Suppression of uprising in Czechoslovakia
The Stonewall Riots in New York City give birth to the gay rights movement, June 1969
United Nations imposes sanctions against South Africa in protest at Apartheid
Students protesting perceived problems with the status-quo are suppressed with violence by police and soldiers in USA, France, Mexico, Czechoslovakia. See New Left
The Quiet Revolution (Révolution tranquille) begins in Quebec - precipitous decline of the Roman Catholic church, liberalism, social-democratic programs, and the birth of modern Quebec nationalism
The rise of radical feminism
Economics

Many countries in Western Europe experience high economic growth (4 to 8% per year)
Culture
Rock and roll develops, diversifies, and becomes very hip. The Beatles eclipse Elvis Presley and become the biggest band in the world
2001: A Space Odyssey hits movie theaters
Star Trek makes its debut in 1966
James Bond movies begin. Dr. No is the first of the series in 1962, starring Sean Connery as Bond
Hippies, drug culture & rock and roll converge at the Woodstock festival, 1969
In the West, the growing popularity of religions other than Christianity (for example, as discussed in the writings of Alan Watts), and of atheism; Time Magazine asks: "Is God Dead?" See Fourth Great Awakening, Consciousness Revolution
Memorable expositions, or "World's Fairs," are held in Seattle (1962), New York (1964/1965), Montreal (1967) and San Antonio (1968)
Progressive rock emerges
Fine Art begins to move away from exclusively consisting of painting, drawing, and sculpture and begins to incorporate elements from popular culture (Pop Art) and begins to favour the ideas behind a work, rather than the work itself (Conceptual Art)
Others
Post-Colonialism; many new or previously colonized countries achieve independence in Africa, Asia
U.S. president John F. Kennedy assassinated in 1963; his brother Robert F. Kennedy assassinated in 1968
U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated on April 4, 1968
Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X assassinated on February 21, 1965
U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society program
In the United States, increase in crime; riots in Los Angeles in 1965 and Chicago at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Rise of the baby boom generation to adulthood
First widespread availability of practical birth control pill for women; See sexual revolution
Sweden switches from driving on the left to the right, in order to harmonise with neighbouring countries. See Rules of the road
People
World leaders
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (Canada)
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson (Canada)
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Canada)
Chairman Mao Zedong (People's Republic of China)
President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China on Taiwan)
President Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt)
President Charles de Gaulle (France)
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (India)
Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri (India)
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (India)
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel)
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol (Israel)
Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
Pope John XXIII
Pope Paul VI
Prime Minister Basil Brooke (Northern Ireland)
Prime Minister Terence O'Neill (Northern Ireland)
Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark (Northern Ireland)
Governor Commonwealth of Puerto Rico)
Taoiseach Sean Lemass (Republic of Ireland)
Taoiseach Jack Lynch (Republic of Ireland)
Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet Union)
Leonid Brezhnev (Soviet Union)
Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Harold Wilson (United Kingdom)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (United States)
President John F. Kennedy (United States)
President Lyndon Johnson (United States)
President Richard Nixon (United States)
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (West Germany)
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (West Germany)
Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger (West Germany)
President for Life Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia)
Writers and intellectuals
Truman Capote
Judith Crist
Philip K. Dick
Ken Kesey
Timothy Leary
Norman Mailer
Marshall McLuhan
Carl Sagan
John Steinbeck
Gore Vidal
Tom Wolfe
Milton Friedman
Frank Herbert
Sports figures

Muhammad Ali (U.S. boxer)
Lance Alworth (U.S. American football player)
Nino Benvenuti (Italian boxer)
Jim Brown (U.S. American football player)
Wilt Chamberlain (U.S. basketball player)
Bobby Charlton (English soccer player)
Jim Clark (Scottish racing driver)
Roberto Clemente (Puerto Rican baseball player)
Bob Cousy (U.S. basketball player)
Eusebio (Portuguese soccer player)
Bob Gibson (U.S. baseball player)
Cookie Gilchrist (U.S. American football player)
Gordie Howe (Canadian ice hockey player)
Bobby Moore (English soccer player)
Joe Namath (U.S. American football player)
Sonny Liston (U.S. boxer)
Sandy Koufax (U.S. baseball player)
Floyd Patterson (U.S. boxer)
Frank Robinson (U.S. baseball player)
Willie Mays (U.S. baseball player)
Stan Mikita (Slovak-Canadian ice hockey player)
Bobby Orr (Canadian ice hockey player)
soccer player)
Richard Petty (U.S. NASCAR racing driver)
Bill Russell (U.S. basketball player)
Oscar Robertson (U.S. basketball player)
Garfield Sobers (Barbadian cricketer)
Alfredo di Stefano (Argentinian/Spanish soccer player)
Fred Trueman (English cricketer)
Entertainers
Julie Andrews
Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello
Joan Baez
Brigitte Bardot
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Byrds
Violet Carson
Sean Connery
Tony Curtis
Neil Diamond
The Doors
Patty Duke
Bob Dylan
Peter Fonda (Easy Rider)
Eileen Fulton
Cary Grant
Andy Griffith
Jimi Hendrix
Alfred Hitchcock
Dustin Hoffman
Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider)
Rock Hudson
Janis Joplin
Led Zeppelin
Jack Lemmon
Jerry Lewis
Gina Lollobrigida
Sophia Loren
Dean Martin
Steve McQueen (Bullitt)
The Monkees
Paul Newman
The Rolling Stones
Roy Orbison
Patricia Phoenix
Sidney Poitier
Peter Sellers
Frank Sinatra
Sonny and Cher
John Wayne
The Who
Raquel Welch