Croydon Boy

Croydon Boy

Peter Saunders

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Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2024
ISBN:
9781326942717
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In this unique book, Peter Saunders, a sociologist by trade, blends sociological research with personal anecdotes and memories to paint a picture of how life in Britain changed for ordinary kids like him through the 1950s and 1960s. The reality of life at that time often failed to live up to the hype. Very few young Brits in the Sixties were tripping on acid, demonstrating in Grosvenor Square, or battling among the Mods and Rockers on Brighton beach. Saunders certainly wasn’t; he was too busy worrying if he was ever going to lose his virginity.Who was the best-selling recording artist of 1967? Not the Beatles, the Stones, the Who or the Beach Boys. It was Engelbert Humperdink. And the best-selling album that year? No, not Sergeant Pepper. It was The Sound of Music.

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