Psychedelic Decadence
Sex Drugs Low-Art In Sixties & Seventies Britain
Author:
Martin Jones
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171mm x 240mm
Page Count:
176
ISBN-13:
9781900486149
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500
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From clichéd hippies to nonconformists, through trend-crushing youth movements to pop stars in bad horror movies...
PSYCHEDELIC DECADENCE cruises through popular British culture of the 1960s and 1970s, with a particular emphasis on the ‘throwaway’ world of sex, drugs, movies, comics and rock’n’roll.
- Michael Reeves’ cult movie The Sorcerers and the benefits of dying young
- An epic trip through the Robin Askwith Confessions universe
- Roxy Music's Plastic Dracula
- David Bowie’s scary songs
- The British Biker on screen and in cheap paperback novels
- Ingrid Pitt’s breasts
- Dracula A.D.1972 and Performance battle it out in a London that just won’t stop swinging
- Childhood memories of 2000AD
- Porn mags as lifestyle bibles
- Susan George… Peter Cook… JG Ballard, Fawlty Towers and more...
"Book of the month"
Loaded
"Fabulous … wonderfully entertaining … will leave you happily nostalgic for these tripped out times; long gone but not forgotten"
Shock Cinema
"It’s this lurking taint of decay that makes this area of British culture so compelling, and makes PSYCHEDELIC DECADENCE such a necessary volume"
Big Cheese