There's a good piece of culture blogging over at Alice's, about how her generation sat around listening to that Punk Rock music and baaaad-mouthin' their country. (And who am I echoing there? Answers please in the comments section.) Also, there's good stuff about hippies, as exemplified by Neil of the Young Ones. Alice has all the links you'll need.

Did I ever tell you that when I lived in Newcastle during my Youth, I wore thick NHS glasses, and when I took my regular trousers to the cleaners I wore my thin ones, and the youths of Newcastle would yell "Ha way Elvis" at me, which was odd because I do not look at all like Elvis Presley. Question mark. Maybe, maybe not. Anyway, one day I had the shock of my young life when I saw a giant cardboard cut-out of myself, wearing thin trousers, in the window of a record shop. Elvis Costello.