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  • Get Yer 'Air Cut

    The issue of male coiffure, pop and counterculture during the Swinging Sixties

    by Alan Clayson ...
    My hair is a statement and always will be, even when I no longer have any.The social revolution of the Swinging Sixties led to a renaissance of unchecked hair growth, and long hair, especially on men, was worn as a political or countercultural symbol of protest and as an expression of masculinity.No-one who was affected by one of a turbulent decade's loudest controversies - or anyone who ever ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remember the 60's

    by Michael Heatley, Alan Clayson ...
    A decade of ground breaking cultural and social change, the 60s is famously recalled with the oft quoted statement "If You Remember the '60s, You Really Weren't There" First published in 2006 and edited by Michael Heatley, this nostalgic look at the best music, movies, TV programmes and events of the swinging 60s is now available as an ebook. Illustrated with fantastic colour and black & white ... Read more

    $3.74 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brian Jones

    by Alan Clayson ...
    Brian Jones, the legend and icon, is familiar to generations of rock fans, but the reality of his life has always remaned mysterious. Granted godlike status alongside giants like Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin, Jones was more than the Stones' ill-fated pretty boy.Set against the dramatic backdrop of the swingin' sixties, Alan Clayson's biography reveals an extremely talented musician ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • John Lennon

    by Alan Clayson ...
    For many years, John Lennon has been seen as the crazed and eccentric Beatle who provided some of the most memorable melodies the music world has ever known. After remaking pop in his own image with The Beatles, the erstwhile would-be artist and Liverpudlian reprobate went on to carve out a significant solo career, with the enigmatic Yoko Ono at his side. Following his murder in 1980, his work and ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Charlie Watts

    by Alan Clayson ...
    Often appearing as a mere onlooker who didn't really want to be there, Charlie Watts - 'the silent Stone' - embraced fame reluctantly. Yet, ironically, if any one of the Stones could have made it big without the rest, it surely would have been Watts, who showed as much early promise as an artist as he did a jazz drummer.Understated and seemingly underwhelmed, Watts provided a stark contrast to the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Get Yer 'Air Cut

    The Issue of Male Coiffure, Pop and Counterculture Before, During and After the Swinging Sixties

    by Alan Clayson ...
    Narrated by Finlay Robertson ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 8 min

    My hair is a statement and always will be, even when I no longer have any.The social revolution of the Swinging Sixties led to a renaissance of unchecked hair growth, and long hair, especially on men, was worn as a political or countercultural symbol of protest and as an expression of masculinity.No-one who was affected by one of a turbulent decade's loudest controversies—or anyone who ever ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Cliff Richard has been a muscial icon for 5 decades, and this eBook has been released to help celebrate his 70th birthday last October. 250 million record sales later - Cliff still continues to delight his fans with new music and spectacular live performances. The book is written by ex DJ and Cliff's goof friend Mike Read. ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The People’s Songs

    The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records

    by Stuart Maconie ...
    These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to.Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and – just sometimes – changed the way we feel. Beginning with Vera Lynn’s ‘We’ll Meet Again’, a song that reassured a nation parted from their loved ones by the ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There

    How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

    by David Hepworth ...
    The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most powerful nation on earth was trying to emulate the music, manners and the modes of a rainy island that had recently fallen on hard times.The resulting fusion of American can-do and British fuck-you didn’t just lead to rock and roll’s most resonant ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Good Night and Good Riddance

    How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life

    by David Cavanagh ...
    Goodnight and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Britain is a social history, a diary of a nation's changing culture, and an in-depth appraisal of one of our greatest broadcasters, a man who can legitimately be called the most influential figure in post-war British popular music.Without the support of John Peel, it's unlikely that innumerable artists - from ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • The 60s, A Very Peculiar History

    by David Arscott ...
    Series Book 32 - A Very Peculiar History
    The 60s, A Very Peculiar History' is a nostalgic celebration of those gloriously giddy years. Filled with fascinating trivia and quirky facts about the Swinging Sixties, David Arscott uniquely explores what made the sixties so different and how the decade has influenced the world today. From a timeline of pivotal historical world events to examining London, 'a city steeped in tradition, seized by ... Read more

    $7.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ready, Steady, Go!

    The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London

    by Shawn Levy ...
    It’s the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes, brilliant music, easy sex, eternal youth, the eyes of everybody, everyone's first thought, the top ... Read more

    $4.99 USD