The 200 Best Songs of the 1960s, part 1 of 10

(Come see me November 15, 11–2, at the Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

Mostly, I wrote books.

If you buy one, I won't die of exposure.

(Part two is here)

My basic attitude towards the ’60s is more or less like my basic attitude to the early years of Modernism: It’s mostly bad and dumb, but it must have been exciting to be young then. But then there’s the music…

Not Modernist music; I mean the music of the 1960s. When has music ever been a...