MEMORIES OF YEARS

David- I was quite young in the 1980’s but I remember them because the Star Wars films started and my big brother was a punk: he had green hair! I hated his loud music and his strange clothes, but he thought they were great. He played the guitar in a band - The Punkboys - they were terrible! He left school when he was fifteen. My parents were very unhappy about that at the time, and I think now he’s sorry, too.

Dorothy- Well, I was a teenager in the 1940’s and it was very different. It was just after the war and it was difficult to buy some things, like bananas or chocolate. I was lucky because my mum worked in a chocolate factory! In the evenings we listened to the radio at home. Some people had a television, but not many. The cinema was popular then: I went to cinema every week, usually on a Saturday afternoon. My parents often watched the news at a news theatre. They said that it was like the cinema.

Amy- I did a lot of things for the first time in the 1960’s. I bought my first record player in 1963 when I was sixteen: my first record was by The Beatles. I loved The Beatles. I remember I went to London for the first time in 1964 and saw The Beatles’ first concert. It was fantastic! We lived in the country then and London was very big, new and exciting. Then I got my first job in 1969 as an English teacher in Turkey. What a busy ten year period!