Editing Swinging Sixties (section)

== Background ==
The Swinging Sixties was a [[youth movement]] emphasising the new and modern. It was a period of optimism and hedonism, and a [[counterculture of the 1960s|cultural revolution]]. One catalyst was the recovery of the British economy after post-[[World War II|Second World War]] [[austerity]], which lasted through much of the 1950s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Going Platinum: The UK's 70 years of change |url=https://www.research.hsbc.com/C/1/1/320/qTxQwLf |access-date=11 October 2022 |work=HSBC|quote=1950s and 1960s: the post-war investment boom. When the Queen came to the throne, the UK economy was still in its post-war boom period}}</ref>

"The Swinging City" was defined by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine on the cover of its issue of 15 April 1966.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=TIME Magazine Cover: London – Apr. 15, 1966 |url=https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19660415,00.html |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=25 January 2019 |language=en-us}}</ref> In a [[Piri Halasz]] article 'Great Britain: You Can Walk Across It on the Grass',<ref name="Rycroft2012">{{cite book |last1=Rycroft |first1=Simon |title=Swinging City: A Cultural Geography of London 1950–1974 |date=2012 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |isbn=978-1-4094-8887-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pLn9Ck4XS6kC&q=Great%20Britain%3A%20You%20Can%20Walk%20Across%20It%20On%20the%20Grass&pg=PA65 |access-date=26 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref> the magazine pronounced London the global hub of youthful creativity, hedonism and excitement: "In a decade dominated by youth, London has burst into bloom. It swings; it is the scene",<ref>{{cite news|title=The Diamond Decades: The 1960s|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9288411/The-Diamond-Decades-The-1960s.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9288411/The-Diamond-Decades-The-1960s.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|agency=The Daily Telegraph|date=10 November 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Gilbert-3">''most famous (if not the first) identification of Swinging London'' Gilbert, David (2006) [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/ldn/2006/00000031/00000001/art00001 "'The Youngest Legend in History': Cultures of Consumption and the Mythologies of Swinging London"] ''The London Journal'' 31(1): pp. 1–14, page 3, {{doi|10.1179/174963206X113089}}</ref> and celebrated in the name of the [[pirate radio]] station, [[Swinging Radio England]], that began shortly afterwards.

The term "swinging" in the sense of [[Hip (slang)|hip]] or fashionable had been used since the early 1960s, including by [[Norman Vaughan (comedian)|Norman Vaughan]] in his "swinging/dodgy" patter on ''[[Sunday Night at the London Palladium]]''. In 1965, [[Diana Vreeland]], editor of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' magazine, said that "London is the most swinging city in the world at the moment."<ref>Quoted by John, ''Weekend Telegraph'', 16 April 1965; and in Pearson, Lynn (2007) "Roughcast textures with cosmic overtones: a survey of British murals, 1945–80" ''Decorative Arts Society Journal'' 31: pp. 116–37</ref> Later that year, the American singer [[Roger Miller]] had a hit record with "[[England Swings]]", although the lyrics mostly relate to traditional notions of Britain.