Prepare 4 U2 P17 07

Sara: Grandma, did you listen to pop music when you were young?


Grandma: Oh, yes!


There were all kinds of exciting bands in those days.


Sara: Really? What did you listen to?


Grandma: I remember when I was a teenager.


It was a summer’s evening in 1969.


My parents had a colour TV.


Colour TVs were fairly new in 1969.


Before then, television was only in black and white.


Sara: Black and white TV?


Grandma: Yes! So this colour TV was rare in those days.


There was a music show called


Top of the Pops and The Beatles were on.


They played songs from their new album, Abbey Road.


Oh, it was an amazing performance!


They played really well.


Abbey Road is still my favourite album of all time.


Sara: I know that album.


Dad still plays it.


It’s cool. But I didn’t know it was so old.


Grandma: I loved The Beatles …


everyone loved The Beatles.


The whole world went crazy when that album came out.


Sara: Oh, Grandma, there’s something I want to ask you.


Can I borrow your jacket again?


Grandma: The blue one?


But it’s really old.


Sara: I know it’s old, but that style’s fashionable again now,


and it matches my jeans.


Grandma: I’ll just go and get it for you …


Sara: Thanks, Grandma.


So what kind of clothes did you wear when you were my age?


Grandma: Girls wore dresses in those days.


Short dresses and colourful tights


are what I remember from the early 1960s.


I had a cool pair of trousers too, with quite short legs.


Sara: And the guys?


Grandma: The men wore smart clothes at the start of the 1960s


but by the time Abbey Road came out in 1969,


the fashion for men was for long hair and beards,


and colourful, loose-fitting clothes …


Sara: And – er – the jacket?


Grandma: Oh, yes, the jacket.


Here it is.


I made this jacket in … I think it was … 1965!


Sara: No way! That’s amazing!


I never knew you were so clever, Grandma.


Grandma: Well, now you know!