The extraordinary decade of the 1960s was always slightly out of sync. It began late - with a remarkable flourish in 1963 with The Beatles; That Was the Week That Was; the Profumo affair and the Great Train Robbery all competing in an atmosphere of giggling frivolity for newspaper headlines - and ended in the early seventies in disillusionment; growing unemployment and accelerating inflation. During that period Ray Connolly was at the centre of the whirlpool of popular arts and rock music; and his weekly journalistic profile of the famous and infamous became an acknowledged notice-board for the style-makers of the sixties. This book collects fifty of his most celebrated character studies and for the most part the subjects are men and women from the authors own age-group - Mick Jagger; Jean Shrimpton; Peter Fonda; David Bailey and Germaine Greer - young people who saw the opportunity to make waves during that era of extravagance; and whose images we saw reflected everywhere. In compiling this book; Ray Connolly has been able to recall the superstars of that time and also to discover what has happened to them since those days of heady optimism.
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