Peter Asher

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Fresh Air · Legendary record producer & manager Peter Asher · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

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So, you know, yes, it was a big change.

And I think that is part of it because Britain, as we grew up, everything was rationed.

Everything was gray and standardized and there were shortages of everything.

And we very much admired, you know, the spirit of the Blitz and all that stuff and tighten your belt and, you know, fight them in the beaches and the general spirit of the thing.

And obviously we won the war in theory, but it certainly didn't feel like it.

And we could see that America was the country that was going to change the world from then on.

The British Empire's days already were kind of numbered, it turned out.

So the Churchillian attitude was sort of fading away.

I think we decided, you know, that was all very well.

We admired what our parents had accomplished.

Thank God we won the war and all that stuff.

But now it's time to have some fun.

So we're going to wear silly clothes and bright colors and smoke dope and have a good time.

And we did.

I wore silly clothes and dressed up.

And smoked dope and had fun.

It was that era in the 50s where you sort of tried to look like a grown-up.

And then by the time we got to the 60s, you wanted to avoid desperately looking like a grown-up.

You wanted to look like somebody cool and young.

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