![]() This was the decade that saw the arrival of the Pill the legitimisation of homosexuality the abolition of hanging the Oz and Lady Chatterley’s Lover trials. The Young Meteors was really just a glorified list of successful men and women who shaped the Sixties – that extraordinary era that changed everything. (The others were Marit Allen of Vogue and Georgina Howell of the Observer – both dead now, sadly.)Īitken lauds the women journalists of the Sixties but is puzzled by the lack of female editor The Young Meteors it was called, and I was one of them.Īt that time, I was 27 years old and the fashion editor of the Sunday Times and Aitken put me in as one of the three powerful influencers in that world. In 1967, Jonathan Aitken, then a young journalist on the Evening Standard (his uncle, Lord Beaverbrook, owned it at the time) wrote a book about the upcoming young movers and shakers in London – the stars of the Sixties (to mix celestial bodies). I am not bragging when I say that 56 years ago I was a young meteor. ![]()
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