As a child, being taken to the Caribbean celebration was a drag. But once sound systems arrived in the 1970s, it became an unmissable yearly pilgrimage offering a sense of freedom My earliest memories of the Notting Hill carnival are of being mildly irritated. In its 1960s infancy, the event wa...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/25/from-old-people-music-to-owning-the-streets-60-years-of-notting-hill-carnival-and-me)