Which street came to epitomise the London of the swinging 60's
Swinging Sixties Radio Caroline and Radio London, and from 1967 on BBC Radio One. During the Swinging Sixties, fashion and photography were featured in "Queen" magazine, which drew attention to fashion designer Mary Quant. Mod-related fashions such as the miniskirt stimulated fashionable London shopping areas such as Carnaby Street and King's Road, Chelsea. The model Jean Shrimpton was another icon and one of the world's first supermodels. She was the world's highest paid and most photographed model during this time. Shrimpton was called "The Face of the '60s", in which she has been considered by many as "the symbol of Swinging London"
Swinging London Town a la Pet Shop Boys," while the lyrical content was compared to Pet Shop Boys' "West End Girls". The song itself was described as "a collision of warp-speed funk guitar riffs and distorted Giorgio Moroder-style techno-disco that unexpectedly drops into wafting movie-soundtrack ambience." "Swinging London Town" also received comparisons to the Chemical Brothers. "Swinging London Town" was originally released as a track on Girls Aloud's third studio album "Chemistry" on 5 December 2005. It was not performed on 2006's Chemistry Tour nor given a single release. Band member Nicola Roberts referred to the track as one of her favourites from