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By Stephen Butt

For the folks of Leicester, the Sixties was once a decade of significant social and financial swap. It was once to determine a revolution in social attitudes mirrored within the well known song of the time, in model, and within the print and broadcast media. lifestyles replaced for everybody. Railway stations closed because the motorcar grew in acceptance. nationwide carrier ended, the pirate radio stations have been scuppered, color tv turned to be had, and the style clothing synthetic by means of Leicester's tremendous fabric businesses have been very diversified and infrequently severe as hemlines rose dramatically. altering attitudes ended in social clash among mom and dad and kids, academics and scholars. in the meantime, the teens danced at Il Rondo to The Who and Fleetwood Mac, and swooned to The Beatles on the De Montfort corridor. In Leicester within the Sixties, Stephen Butt charts the buzz and vibrancy of the 'Swinging Sixties' and displays additionally at the financial and social difficulties that have been simply underneath the surface.

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