Revolt Into Style

By George Melly and George Melly

Book Overview

'The first serious attempt to analyse pop culture by someone who was part of it.' Julian Mitchell, "Guardian" The redoubtable GeorgeMelly (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, Mellybegan work as a broadsheet journalist, commenting upon this new cultural phenomenon.Revoltinto 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 decade's 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 Melly's surgical mind.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571246583
• ISBN13: 9780571246588
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.6" x 5.5"