The music was great (speaking as a former member of a sixties rock band)!!  Remember it all on http://www.sixtiespop.freeserve.co.uk
 

This may seem like a copy of the Monty Python sketch ("Luxury.  We lived in a hole in t'ground"), but ...

...Remember what you did in 1958?  Do you remember what life was like without all the things that (apparently) nobody can do without today?  When did you first get central heating?  To warm the average house in the north east in 1958 (or ours, at least), somebody had to get up and light the coal fire - which usually provided hot water, too.
 

Our family car was this 1953 Ford Prefect (not to be confused with anyone from a small planet near Betelgeuse) with no radio and no seat belts.  Parents in the front, five kids in the back!!! which could get up to about 55 mph given a straight road - which there wasn't.  Driving from Houghton to visit my grandmother near Manchester was an epic, all-day journey, with usually at least one breakdown or puncture.
The house behind the car is even older than the family limo.  81 Sunderland street was built in the early 18th century and knocked down to make way for the new road through Houghton Cut (some time after we left it, fortunately).
 
 
 
 
 

But if you were rich enough for a new car .....?
The most famous car of the Sixties was probably the Mini,  first seen on 26th August 1959.  Its price stayed pretty much the same  through the Sixties, starting at £495 19s 0d in 1960 and still costing only £595 10s 0d in 1969.
The ultimate early Sixties four-wheeled success symbol was probably the sleek, sexy, elongated E-type Jaguar whose shape epitomised the modern streamlined designs of the new decade.  It was first seen by the public at the Geneva Motor Show on 16th March 1961 and came in hard-top or open-top versions at a price of around £2100, with a 3.8 litre six cylinder 'S' type engine which developed 265 bhp allowing it to go from 0 to 100 in about 16 seconds.
(These notes from http://www.sixtiescity.velnet.com)
 
 
 
 
 
 

There were no Japanese motorbikes.  You had to be hard (and oily) to ride a British bike - a Triumph, Norton, BSA, Matchless, Ariel, Vincent or Royal Enfield
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

We'd  had a television since 1952 (the coronation year), and somewhere around 1960 when Tyne Tees Television started up we got a choice of channels.
I vaguely remember watching Doctor Who in about 1963 while I was pressing my ATC uniform.  Colour started about 1969.

 
 

When did you see your first transistor radio?

The average wage in 1960 was £14.10s.8d a week.

There were no radio stations playing popular music in the UK then - the pirate stations - Radio Caroline and the others - came along about 1964.  You could listen to music if you could pick up Radio Luxembourg, with DJs like Pete Murray, Alan Freeman and Jack Jackson.