The London Boys
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The London Boys

David Bowie, Marc Bolan & the 60s Teenage Dream

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The London Boys

David Bowie, Marc Bolan & the 60s Teenage Dream

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Rock 'n' Roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie and Marc Bolan spent the first part of their careers following remarkably similar paths. From the day they met in 1965 as Davie Jones and Mark Feld, rock 'n' roll wannabes painting their manager's office in London's Denmark Street, they would remain friends and rivals, each watching closely and learning from the other. In the years before they launched an unbeatable run of era-defining glam rock masterpieces at the charts, they were both just another face on the scene, meeting for coffee in Soho, hanging out at happenings and jamming in parks. Here, they are our guides through the decade that changed everything, as the gloom of post-war London exploded into the technicolor dream of the swinging sixties, a revolution in music, fashion, art and sexuality. Part dual-biography, part social history, part musical celebration of an era, The London Boys follows the British youth culture explosion through eyes of two remarkable young men on the front lines of history.

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Publisher
Pen & Sword History
Year
2022
ISBN
9781399008440
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Rock Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Prologue: ‘Oh, That’s Really Polaroid’
  8. Chapter 1 Bombsite Boys
  9. Chapter 2 Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom!
  10. Chapter 3 Mod n’ Art
  11. Chapter 4 Count Me In
  12. Chapter 5 The Magician, the Meek and the Madhouse on Castle Street
  13. Chapter 6 Dave’s Red and Blues
  14. Chapter 7 Toby Or Not Toby
  15. Chapter 8 Young Dudes
  16. Chapter 9 Cowboys and Umlauts
  17. Chapter 10 Loose Change
  18. Chapter 11 How Queer?
  19. Chapter 12 Metamorphosis ‘66
  20. Chapter 13 Petals and Flowers
  21. Chapter 14 Haven’t You Got A Gnome To Go To?
  22. Chapter 15 Tony Visconti’s Bathtub
  23. Chapter 16 Full of Mysterious Promise
  24. Chapter 17 Mime, All Mime
  25. Chapter 18 ‘They’re Selling Hippy Wigs In Woolworths, Man’
  26. Chapter 19 Commencing Countdown
  27. Chapter 20 The Prettiest Stars
  28. Selected Bibliography
  29. Plates