Give the Anarchist a Cigarette (Paperback, New Ed)

Through a long and chequered career, Mick Farren has functioned as a writer, poet, rock star, recording artist, rabble-rouser, critic and commentator, and even won a protracted obscenity trial at the Old Bailey. After resisting the idea for a long time, he has finally written his own highly personal and insightful account of the British counterculture in the 1960s and '70s, from the perspective of one who was right there in the thick of it. With a continuing and unashamed commitment to the tradition of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, he recounts a rollercoaster odyssey - sometimes violent and often hilarious - from early beatnik adventures in Ladbroke Grove, through the flowering hippies to the snarl of punk. He gives a firsthand, insider's account of the chaos, disorder and raging excess of those two highly excessive decades. At the centre of the book is Farren's career in the underground, as the man on the door at the UFO club, driving spirit at IT and, of course, lead singer with the Social Deviants. He describes his encounters with the celebrated and the notorious, who range from Jimi Hendrix and Germaine Greer to Julie Burchill and Sid Vicious, and concludes that the pop history of bohemian culture does not neatly divide itself into easy decades, but continues to this day, perhaps in different guises, but frequently with the same goals and motivations.

General

Imprint:	Pimlico
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2002
Authors:	Mick Farren
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	421
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7126-6732-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
LSN:	0-7126-6732-6
Barcode:	9780712667326

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