Editing Swinging Sixties (section)

== Music ==
[[File:KinksFanclubCropped.png|thumb|right|alt=|[[The Kinks]] in 1967]]
Already heralded by [[Colin MacInnes]]' 1959 novel ''[[Absolute Beginners (novel)|Absolute Beginners]]'' which captured London's emerging youth culture,<ref>{{cite news |title=Absolute MacInnes: British identity and society|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/apr/15/britishidentity.fiction |access-date=2 October 2022 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> Swinging London was underway by the mid-1960s and included music by [[the Beatles]], [[the Rolling Stones]], [[the Kinks]], [[the Who]], [[Small Faces]], [[the Animals]], [[Dusty Springfield]], [[Lulu (singer)|Lulu]], [[Cilla Black]], [[Sandie Shaw]] and other artists from what was known in the US as the "[[British Invasion]]".<ref>{{cite web| author=Ira A. Robbins |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/80244/British-Invasion |title=British Invasion (music) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia |website=Britannica.com |access-date=2 October 2022}}</ref> [[Psychedelic rock]] from artists such as [[Pink Floyd]], [[Cream (band)|Cream]], [[Procol Harum]], [[the Jimi Hendrix Experience]] and [[Traffic (band)|Traffic]] grew significantly in popularity.

Large venues, besides former music halls, included [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde]], [[Alexandra Park, London|Alexandra]] and [[Finsbury Park]]s, [[Clapham Common]] and the [[Wembley Arena|Empire Pool (which became Wembley Arena)]]. This sort of music was heard in the United Kingdom on TV shows such as the BBC's ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' (where the Rolling Stones were the first band to perform with "[[I Wanna Be Your Man]]"), and [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s ''[[Ready Steady Go!]]'' (which would feature [[Manfred Mann]]'s "[[5-4-3-2-1]]" as its theme tune), on commercial radio stations such as [[Radio Luxembourg]], [[Radio Caroline]] and [[Wonderful Radio London|Radio London]], and from 1967 on [[BBC Radio One]].<ref>{{cite news|title=BBC says fond farewell to Top of the Pops|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/06_june/20/totp.shtml|access-date=2 September 2022|agency=BBC|archive-date=20 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120012154/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/6_june/20/totp.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| first= David| last= Roberts| year= 1998| title= Guinness Rockopedia| edition= 1st| publisher= Guinness Publishing Ltd.| location= London| page= [https://archive.org/details/guinnessrockoped0000unse/page/258 258]| isbn= 0-85112-072-5| url-access= registration| url= https://archive.org/details/guinnessrockoped0000unse/page/258}}</ref>

The Rolling Stones' 1966 album ''[[Aftermath (Rolling Stones album)|Aftermath]]'' has been cited by music scholars as a reflection of Swinging London. [[Ian MacDonald]] said, with the album the Stones were chronicling the phenomenon, while Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon called it "the soundtrack of Swinging London, a gift to hip young people".<ref>{{harvnb|Norman|2001|p=197}}; {{harvnb|Moon|2004|p=697}}; {{harvnb|MacDonald|2002}}; {{harvnb|Margotin|Guesdon|2016|p=136}}.</ref>