best time to be alive

[mollykins]

Considering every aspect of life including the person such as race, religion, gender and age, as well as how well of they were (probably quite would be the answer)

aswell as when they'd be alive and where, (considering disease, taxes, crime etc)

who and when would be the best time to be alive in the history of humanity?

Hoepfully that made sense.

I'd say perhaps a victorian mill owner. Many cures for diseases had been found, I don't think taxes were that high, there wasn't the world wars to harm you . . . . . .

[boxtops]

My first LP buy in 1962 was the sound track from It's Trad Dad - Helen Shapiro - after that it was Beatles all the way.

[jno]

then you can like them still, MarkRae; they are timeless enough. But they won't give you much of a feel for 1967, which was full of much more exciting music, often from much inferior singers.

You were ahead of me, boxy, I think mine was 12x5 a couple of years later.

[MarkRae]

The remastered 12 x 5 is wonderful, as are all the Stones remasters.

[jno]

I've just had a look at the CD online but can no longer remember if those are the original tracks or not. I'm pretty sure the songs on their earlier LP (as was) are not the same as those on 'England's newest hit makers'.

[craft1948]

I queued all night in, I think, 1963 to see the Beatles .........couldn't actually hear them for all the screaming girls....................

[boxtops]

Lucky you, crafty - when you look back at old TV programmes or at Top of the Tops, you remember how screaming was just de rigeur in those days. You could never hear the band, you just had to scream!

[jno]

well, I decided I wouldn't go to see them, craft, for the same reason: I wouldn't be able to hear a thing.

I was dead right. Biggest mistake of my life, though.

[MarkRae]

Back then, it was very common for record companies to release slightly (or sometimes completely) different albums (i.e. different titles and tracks) in the UK compared to other territories. E.g.
http://en.wikipedia.o...olling_Stones_(album)
http://en.wikipedia.o...i/Between_the_Buttons

[craft1948]

I had my Cathy McGowan hairstyle with the long full fringe, god I thought I was the bees knees lol.............

[boxtops]

I remember a conversation in our school classroom in February 1963, when Please Please Me was issued, the Beatles' second single after Love Me Do. We couldn't understand how the NME (our Bible) could say - so soon - that this was the record of the year, when it was only February....

[boxtops]

I had the thigh boots, craft, that sofy synthetic patent pretend-leather, with the buckles at the thighs.....

[craft1948]

and a PVC mac, panstick makeup and Dusty Springfield eyes....

[paddywak]

Talking of artists, in those days all of the turns made there money touring, doing one night stands at local venues I remember taking Brenda to see the Searchers at the old cinema in Mansfield and the back up artists were Dusty Springfield and Big Dee Irwin. These concerts were taking place all over the country and the cost of tickets was ludicrously cheap compared to concert tickets today and we saw just about every major band of the 60's over the period we were together

[jno]

hmmm, it says 12x5 was US-only

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_X_5

Could be, I didn't live in the UK then, but I had assumed I was getting UK product.

[boxtops]

Yes paddywak, I can't remember where but I saw Brenda Lee, and plenty of smaller top 20 bands in our local town hall. As I recall, the price was about the same as going to the pictures.

[boxtops]

Oh yes craft, zip up the front, and that pan stick stuff got everywhere - good though. Gee I was thin as a stick in those days - Dollyrocker dresses...

[stoofur]

The best time to be alive imo is outside work hours!

[shaneystar2]

Yes the 1960's . Best years of my life. I plagued my Dad to pay for me to go and see the Beatles at The London Palladium. Couldn't hear a thing except screaming .I remember seeing the Stones and The Who at the Central Hall in Chatham .Think it cost about five bob !
I still have my Beatles magazines :)

[Khandro]

Healthy Upper class English, born early part of 19th cent. pegging out by 1913 thereby missing WW 1.