Nigel Kneale hated the 1960s. “I didn’t like the Sixties at all because of the whole thing of ‘let it all hang out’ and let’s stop thinking […] which was the all too frequent theme of the Sixties which I hated”. This became his primary preoccupation in the latter part of his career. He writes angry.
In 1969 a psychedelic prog rock band formed and named themselves Quatermass. Pink Floyd were fans of Nigel Kneale, as were Ringo Starr and Michael Palin.