The Great Sixty Eight...

[Nai Noswad]

Smart Belfast post SC..most think Bloody Sunday..

Right on theme here- Playboy After Dark..fashions are pure '68...even down to the horse brasses on the guitar strap!
Joe South...and then some!

Deep Purple -Hush

 

[Nai Noswad]

Hibbing man sings..this number one hit.

Gary Puckett And The Union Gap - Young Girl.

 

[Nai Noswad]

The Big Mac first appeared in this year.
Costing just 49c.

1968 TV commercial ( fraish lettuce.)

 

[Nai Noswad]

Controversy as the Beach Boys record a Charles Manson penned song...after Dennis Wilson has a chance meeting with the cult killer.

Never Learn Not To Love.

 

[~Banshee~]

This wowed the kids in '68..and we all wanted our Dad's to buy one: MK.1 Ford Capri.

Oooh that's a sexy car indeed, absolute babe magnets in the '70's.

..

"Broadsword calling Danny Boy"....Burton's voice l..he could have talked me into anything.


Have to say, a great idea for threads @Nai Noswad if of course you're going to do other random years?

 

[Nai Noswad]

Thanks Banshee..i have always considered 1968 to be a great year..Elvis in the two -piece leather outfit in his 'comeback'.
The Stones Rock n Roll Circus in December..which The Who and Tull stole from them..iconic movie IF..and the beginning of Planet Of The Apes.
On a personal level...this was the first time i was taken into a copshop( maybe another time.)

 

[Slipn]

Jan 28 Radiation alert following B-52 crash in Arctic air base of Thule in Greenland

 

[Nai Noswad]

During the Summer of Love and in 1968..we were all wondering who Number One was.

The Prisoner- starring Patrick McGoohan.

 

[Nai Noswad]

The sexy spacegirl Jane Fonda stars in the 1968 movie : Barbarella.
( Simon LeBon & co must have viewed too..Duran Duran being played by Milo O'Shea.)

 

[Nai Noswad]

On a cold January in '68 Johnny Cash entered Folsom Prison.

JC standing next to a screw at Folsom shortly before the gig.