Rolling back the years with stars of the 1960s I

RECEIVED a press release about yet another of those tours featuring pop and rock bands of the 1960s.

But hang on a minute? How long can they carry on? They say if you remember the Swinging 60s you weren’t there, with the implication being that everyone was stoned or high on hedonism for the whole decade.

But some of these acts are so old their memories could be going.

PJ Proby is featured in the latest Sixties Gold Final Tour and he will be 80 a week after playing the Leeds Grand Theatre on October 28, alongside The Searchers, The Merseybeats, The Fortunes, Vanity Fair and Love Affair’s Steve Ellis.

Proby, who was once a resident of Linthwaite during a quiet part of his career, had hits with Hold Me and Somewhere. He was also famous for splitting his trousers on stage although I doubt whether this is any longer part of his act.

The Rolling Stones are still touring and making records but they have the advantage of being a hard blues band, which you can get away with when you are in your mid-70s, but there seems something odd about pensioners singing about teen dreams.

Mind you, these groups produced such hits as Needles and Pins, Wishin’ and Hopin,’ The Real Thing, Everlasting Love and I Live For The Sun.

Timeless classics that captured a generation and launched a new era of popular music.

I remember them well.