Revolt into Style

The Pop Arts

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Theory & Criticism, History & Criticism, Reference, History
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Author: George Melly ISBN: 9780571281114
Publisher: Faber & Faber Publication: April 5, 2012
Imprint: Faber & Faber Language: English
Author: George Melly
ISBN: 9780571281114
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication: April 5, 2012
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Language: English

'The first serious attempt to analyse pop culture by someone who was part of it.' Julian Mitchell, Guardian


The redoubtable George Melly (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, Melly began work as a broadsheet journalist, commenting upon this new cultural phenomenon. Revolt into 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.

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'The first serious attempt to analyse pop culture by someone who was part of it.' Julian Mitchell, Guardian


The redoubtable George Melly (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, Melly began work as a broadsheet journalist, commenting upon this new cultural phenomenon. Revolt into 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.

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