London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists & writers, musicians & fashion designers seeking inspiration & success. In London Calling, Barry Miles explores the counter-culture
- creative, avant garde, permissive, anarchic
- that sprang up in this great city in the decades following the Second World War. Here are the heady post-war days when suddenly everything seemed possible, the jazz bars & clubs of the fifties, the teddy boys & the Angry Young Men, Francis Bacon & the legendary Colony Club, the 1960s & the Summer of Love, the rise of punk & the early days of the YBAs. The vitality & excitement of this time & years of change
- & the sheer creative energy in the throbbing heart of London
- leap off the pages of this evocative & original book.