READY STEADY GO EB
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READY STEADY GO EB

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eBook - ePub

READY STEADY GO EB

About this book

Shawn Levy, author of 'Rat Pack Confidential' brings alive London in the swinging Sixties with a gripping, groovy story of those who created the scene that changed the world.

This edition does not include illustrations.

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 & sex, crime, the avant garde underground and the tabloid obsession with fame. The rest of the world watched in awe.

Snaking through it 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) and The Blue Blood (art dealer Robert Fraser), 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; pop groups The Beatles, The Who and The Kinks; filmmakers Roman Polanski, Richard Lester and Michelangelo Antonioni; 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.

Due to a combination of massive talent and sheer luck, they dominated the world scene. But the party was to end – after seven short years it seemed that everyone was now a Swinging Londoner and the same vibe was found in Paris, New York and San Francisco.

'Ready, Steady, Go' recreates the whole show and contrasts a series of emblematic lives with the great events that shaped the time. Through these stories, Shawn Levy, author of 'Rat Pack Confidential', shows how the city reinvented cool and then seemed to lose its swing altogether.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. I
  5. II
  6. A Cloud of Pink Chiffon
  7. The World Was Full of Chancers
  8. Tugboat Terry
  9. An Ordinary Person Couldn’t Do It
  10. A Bit of Yankophilia
  11. Strawberry Bob and the Mods
  12. III
  13. Nemperor
  14. I Hadn’t Thought It Out Beyond That
  15. The Box
  16. Mick Doesn’t Like Women. He Never Has.
  17. All the Young Stoned Harlequins
  18. IV
  19. We Are Not Worried About Petty Morals
  20. The Road to Nowhere
  21. ‘This Ego I Had Nurtured Was Crushed’
  22. ‘Sort of Baudelaireish’
  23. It’s Just Not Fun Anymore
  24. V
  25. Keep Reading
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index
  28. Acknowledgements
  29. About the Author
  30. Praise
  31. Copyright
  32. About the Publisher