LOSE YOURSELF IN 1960

EVERLY BROTHERLY LOVE

Don and Phil, The Everly Brothers, released Britain’s biggest hit of 1960, Cathy’s Clown. It was the first record on the new Warner Brothers Label, which had wooed the best-selling duo away with an unprecedented ten-year $1million contract. Luckily for Warners, the brothers kept on making hits throughout the first half of the new decade.

THE MORNING AFTER…

Arguably the best film of 1960 was the grittier-than-a-mouthful-of-gravel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Adapted from an Alan Sillitoe novel, the triple BAFTA winning picture starred Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton, an amoral, anti-establishment womanising Nottingham factory worker.

KENNEDY IN

John F Kennedy was elected President of the United States with just 120,000 more votes than opponent, Richard Nixon. The two had clashed in the first ever televised debate between presidential candidates, when the cameras were said to love Kennedy while Nixon appeared sweaty and shifty.