'My book of the year. Extraordinary' The Times
A new history of counterculture in the UK, from the release of
Heartbreak Hotel in 1956 to the passing of the Criminal Justice Act in
1994 Deep in a wood in the Marches of Wales, in an ancient school bus
there lives an old man called Bob Rowberry. A Hero for High Times is the
story of how he ended up in this broken-down bus.
It's also the
story of his times, and the ideas that shaped him. It's a story of why
you know your birth sign, why you have friends called Willow, why sex
and drugs and rock'n'roll once mattered more than money, why dance music
stopped the New-Age Travellers from travelling, and why you need to
think twice before taking the brown acid. It's also a story of
friendship between two men, one who did things, and one who thought
about things, between theory and practice, between a hippie and a punk,
between two gentlemen, no longer in the first flush of youth, who still
believe in love.
'This amiable and
engaging blog-doc is an Odyssey for elective outsiders' Iain Sinclair.
A Hero for High Times - Ian Marchant
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