The first serious attempt to analyse pop culture by someone who was part of it. Julian Mitchell; GuardianThe redoubtable George Melly (1926-2007): flamboyant jazz singer; sexually ambiguous raconteur; prodigiously gifted critic. In the early sixties; at the birth of what we now recognise as the pop revolution; Melly began work as a broadsheet journalist; commenting upon this new cultural phenomenon. Revolt into Style (1970) is his first-hand account of those turbulent and exciting years when all things creative - whether music; fashion; film; art or literature - were changed utterly.Central to the book are The Beatles - the epitome of the swinging sixties - who charted the decades changes and about whose significance the Liverpudlian Melly had a special feel and insight. Alongside the Fab Four is a large cast of movers and shakers; of wannabes and taste-makers; all dissected by Mellys surgical mind.
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