416 pages, large format book stuffed with anecdotes, exotica and pictures

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"What links David Hockney, Jane Asher, Syd Barrett, Alan Ginsberg, The Krays, Ronnie Wood, Princess Margaret, Salvador Dali, Dennis Hopper, Germaine Greer and a bunch of nutters who thought drilling holes in their heads was a good idea? Given that you have probably already clocked the title you’ve possibly already guessed that the link is London in the sixties, more specifically the London that revolved around, and grew from, the success of the Beatles and The Stones, and the cast of characters that gravitated towards them. London Babylon is basically a who’s who of London in the swinging sixties (and it’s some who’s who), laced with fascinatingly detailed research, more than enough sex and drugs to keep even the most jaded reader tuned in, and whilst there are no major new revelations, making the streets of London itself the star lends a new slant to popular stories, weaving them together and helping place them on the rapidly evolving timeline in such a way that you are left with a far better grasp of just how things must have seemed at the time. This is an entertaining and informative romp which will even appeal to readers who feel they already know all there is to know about the period."
The Oracle Total Music Magazine

A marriage of an energetically entertaining literary style and thorough absorption of the subject, London Babylon cuts, dries and dissects not only the leading musicians, but also their small cabal of film directors, actors, suits, artists, mystics, designers, wide boys, rich kids, drug pushers, revolutionaries, writers, groupies, thugs...all the scene-makers who functioned (or otherwise) in the Smoke and its more exotic outposts. Into the bargain, it ratifies or dismisses with sound evidence a lot of the rumoured excesses that were discussed by provincial schoolboys when sharing a communal cigarette behind the bike sheds.
Alan Clayson - writer Backbeat

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