Ready, Steady, Go! - by Shawn Martin Levy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Now in paperback, a lively, fact-and-fun filled visit to the wild, trendsetting London of the 1960s, complete with great photos and revealing interviews with the musicians, artists, models, and writers who turned the staid old city into the vibrant, exuberant center of youth culture.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>It's the summer of 1966... </b>The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes, brilliant music, easy sex, eternal youth, the eyes of everybody, everyone's first thought, the top of the world, right here, right now: <i>Swinging London.</i> <p/>Shawn Levy has a genius for unearthing the secret history of popular culture. The <i>Los Angeles Times</i> called <i>King of Comedy</i>, his biography of Jerry Lewis, "a model of what a celebrity bio ought to be-smart, knowing, insightful, often funny, full of fascinating insiders' stories," and the<i> Boston Globe</i> declared that <i>Rat Pack Confidential</i> "evokes the time in question with the power of a novel, as well as James Ellroy's <i>American Tabloid</i> and better by far than Don DeLillo's <i>Underworld.</i>" <p/>In <i>Ready, Steady, Go! </i>Levy captures the spirit of the sixties in all its exuberance. A portrait of London from roughly 1961 to 1969, it chronicles the explosion of creativity-in art, music and fashion-and the revolutions-sexual, social and political-that reshaped the world. Levy deftly blends the enthusiasm of a fan, the discerning eye of a social critic and a historian's objectivity as he re-creates the hectic pace and daring experimentation of the times-from the utter transformation of rock 'n' roll by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to the new aesthetics introduced by fashion designers like Mary Quant, haircutters like Vidal Sassoon, photographers like David Bailey, actors like Michael Caine and Terence Stamp and filmmakers like Richard Lester and Nicolas Roeg to the wild clothing shops and cutting-edge clubs that made Carnaby Street and King's Road the hippest thoroughfares in the world. <p/>Spiced with the reminiscences of some of the leading icons of that period, their fans and followers, and featuring a photographic gallery of well-known faces and far-out fashions, <i>Ready, Steady, Go! </i>is an irresistible re-creation of a time and place that seemed almost impossibly fun.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"An invigorating book...packed with can't-miss material."<br><br>"Finally somebody besides Dr. Evil has invented a time machine to take us back to the '60s."<br><br>Praise for Ready, Steady, Go!: "Nimble and exciting...Levy's writing is more smashing than an Austin Powers movie."<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>SHAWN LEVY is the author of six previous books, including the <i>New York Times</i>bestsellers <i>Rat Pack Confidential</i> and <i>Paul Newman: A Life</i>. He served as film critic of <i>The Oregonian</i> from 1997 to 2012 and is a former senior editor of<i>American Film</i> and a former associate editor of <i>Box Office</i>. His work has appeared in the <i>New York Times</i>, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>The Independent, Film Comment, Movieline, </i>and <i>Sight and Sound</i>, among many other publications. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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