Ready, Steady, Go!: Swinging London And The Invention Of Cool

Ready, Steady, Go!: Swinging London And The Invention Of Cool by Shawn Levy


Authors
Shawn Levy
ISBN
9781841152257
Published
Released
01 / 09 / 2002
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
400
Dimensions
159 x 240mm

Shawn Levy brings alive London in the swinging sixties with a gripping, groovy story of those who created the scene that changed the world.

For a few years in the 1960s, London was the coolest city on earth: a spontaneous, dizzying stew of pop music, fashion, film, scandal, drugs and sex, crime, the avant garde underground and the tabloid obsession with fame. The rest of the world watched in awe.

Snaking through the book are such eminent swinging Londoners as The Dreamer (actor Terence Stamp), The Chameleon (Rolling Stone Mick Jagger), The Loner (Beatles manager Brian Epstein), The Snapper (photographer David Bailey) as well as such figures as comedian Peter Cook; hairdresser Vidal Sassoon; singer Marianne Faithfull; fashion designer Mary Quant; supermodels Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy; gangsters Ron and Reggie Kray; actor Michael Caine; actresses Catherine Deneuve, Lynn Redgrave and Julie Christie; as well as the various participants in the Profumo scandal, the Great Train Robbery, the rise of LSD, the radical underground, the heyday of the gambling club and the fashion boutique and various and sundry scandals, scenes and sensations.
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