The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream
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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The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream
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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The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream

The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream

by Marc Burrows
The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream

The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream

by Marc Burrows

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781399008433
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Publication date: 12/16/2022
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Marc Burrows is a music critic, author and occasional comedian. His biography The Magic of Terry Pratchett won the 2021 Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction, and he writes regularly for The Guardian, Observer, Quietus and Hey U Guys about music, film and pop culture. He plays bass in the cult Victorian punk band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, and lives in North London with his wife, the poet and author Nicoletta Wylde and a small black cat called Princess. He also has two tropical fish, who he suspects might be psychopaths.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Introduction viii

Prologue: 'Oh, That's Really Polaroid' ix

Chapter 1 Bombsite Boys 1

Chapter 2 Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom! 13

Chapter 3 Mod n' Art 26

Chapter 4 Count Me In 38

Chapter 5 The Magician, the Meek and the Madhouse on Castle Street 52

Chapter 6 Dave's Red and Blues 63

Chapter 7 Toby Or Not Toby 78

Chapter 8 Young Dudes 87

Chapter 9 Cowboys and Umlauts 97

Chapter 10 Loose Change 108

Chapter 11 How Queer? 120

Chapter 12 Metamorphosis '66 132

Chapter 13 Petals and Flowers 142

Chapter 14 Haven't You Got A Gnome To Go To? 154

Chapter 15 Tony Visconti's Bathtub 164

Chapter 16 Full of Mysterious Promise 178

Chapter 17 Mime, All Mime 190

Chapter 18 'They're Selling Hippy Wigs In Woolworths, Man' 203

Chapter 19 Commencing Countdown 213

Chapter 20 The Prettiest Stars 230

Selected Bibliography 245

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