1966 The year the decade exploded
Book - 2015
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- Published
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London :
Faber & Faber
2015.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966.
- Physical Description
- xii, 653 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780571277629
- Introduction
- Part 1. Acceleration
- 1. January: A Quiet Explosion: CND, Protest and the Conspiracy of Silence
- 2. February: 19th Nervous Breakdown: British Teen Culture and the Madness of Swinging London
- 3. March: The Ballad of the Green Berets: The Vietnam War in America
- 4. April: The Third Eye: LSD and Its Discontents
- 5. May: Walkin' My Cat Named Dog: The Feminine Mystique and Female Independence
- 6. June: I'll Be Your Mirror: The Velvet Underground and Warhol's America
- 7. July: Land of 1000 Dances: Tamla, Soul and the March Against Fear
- 8. August: Do You Come Here Often? Joe Meek, Gay Rights and a Summer of Violence
- Part 2. Explosion
- 9. September: 7 And 7 Is: Provocations, Shadows and a New Language
- 10. October: Winchester Cathedral: Times Past, Present and Future
- 11. November: Good Vibrations: Motown and Soul in the UK, the Beach Boys and the Sunset Strip
- 12. December: My Mind's Eye: Dreams of Freedom, a Prophetic Minority and the Return to Childhood
- Acknowledgements
- Discography
- Sources
- Index