The baby boom is the name given to the population increase worldwide that occurred after the Second World War, roughly between 1946 and 1964.
Boomers can be subdivided into Early boomers (1946 to 1954) and Generation Jones (1955 to 1964)
Early boomers were teenagers in the 1960s – the Beatles, The Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Civil Rights, Assassination of John F Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Flower power, hippies, the moon landing
Gen Jones were teenagers in the 1970s – glam rock, punk rock, ABBA, Watergate, Space Invaders, Oil Crisis, Betamax tapes, the creation of Apple and Microsoft, Concorde, first test tube baby,