London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists and writers, musicians and fashion designers seeking inspiration and success. In London Calling, Barry Miles explores the counter-culture – creative, avant garde, permissive, anarchic – that sprang up in this great city in the decades following the Second World War. Here are the heady post-war days when suddenly everything seemed possible, the jazz bars and clubs of the fifties, the teddy boys and the Angry Young Men, Francis Bacon and the legendary Colony Club, the 1960s and the Summer of Love, the rise of punk and the early days of the YBAs. The vitality and excitement of this time and years of change – and the sheer creative energy in the throbbing heart of London – leap off the pages of this evocative and original book.
About the author
Barry Miles is one of the most famous biographers of the sixties and seventies music scene. He is also one of the few writers to have been intimately acquainted with the rock stars whose lives he has chronicled. Miles is the author of a number of seminal books on popular culture. His books include the authorised biography of Paul Mc Cartney, Paul Mc Cartney: Many Years from Now, Ginsberg: A Biography, Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats, In the Sixties, The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963, Hippie which was published in 2003 and Frank Zappa by Atlantic in 2006.
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