Joseph Connolly on the everyday stuff of modern life that would have seemed impossible 60 years ago
The Rolling Stones, whom we’d watched on a small black-and-white-TV screen, would still be rolling 60 years later, and that Mick Jagger at the age of 80 would be possibly the most famous man in the world?Or that he and so many other pop stars would receive knighthoods – Cliff Richard, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Tom Jones, Van Morrison, Bono, Ray Davies, Elton John, Ringo Starr? And that when our parents said we would soon grow out of our love for the Beatles, they were wrong? The insane rise in the value of houses would mean that being a millionaire was no big deal? The phone would evolve from being the black Bakelite behemoth in the hall into a bafflingly ingenious portable sliver that could do everything? And meanwhile, to the young, it would become a vital and wholly addictive adjunct to their limbs and heart, if not their...
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