Popular Disillusionment of the 60′s and 70′s
Throughout the 60’s and 70’s, popular disillusionment progressively spread across Great Britain. A fight for change began to arise among the youth, who yearned for social change. The cause of this disillusionment can be stemmed to economically challenging times that the country faced proceeding WWII. With the economy moving away from stability, Unions were beginning to form, and strikes for workers rights began to sweep the nation. Looking to the youth who were shaping the world around them, it is seen that a new focus had been placed on social issues, and how addressing them could change everything they had known. This change from the youth came in the form of new music, a music that had changed to way of speaking out for what this generation believed in, and indeed a newer, angrier way of looking at the world around them. This music, of course is Punk Rock. Such bands as The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, and The Rolling Stones were influential and played an important role in the popular disillusionment movement which marked one of the greatest periods of change in Britain’s history.
