Decade ("60s" or "sixties"), although this may leave it uncertain which century is meant. These references are frequently used to encapsulate popular culture or other widespread phenomena that dominated such a decade, as in "The Great Depression of the 1930s" or "The Roaring Twenties". However, the Gregorian calendar begins with the year 1. (There is no year "zero", and the year before AD 1 is 1 BC with nothing in between.) Therefore, its "first" decade is from AD 1 to AD 10, the "second" decade from AD 11 to AD 20, and so on. So, although "the 1960s" comprises the years
I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World) critiquing the naïveté of such postwar optimism in America and the Western world. The "76" referred to in the song is 1976, the U.S. Bicentennial year. "I.G.Y." debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 9, 1982 at number 56. It reached the top 40 on October 30 and eventually peaked at number 26 on November 27, 1982. It also reached number 8 on "Billboard" Adult Contemporary chart, number 17 on "Billboard" Mainstream Rock chart, and number 54 on "Billboard" R&B Singles chart. It was Fagen's only solo Top 40 hit on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. It was nominated