1963: The Year of the Revolution: How Youth Changed the World with Music, Art, and Fashion - Hardcover

Leve, Ariel; Morgan, Robin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062120441 ISBN 13: 9780062120441

Publisher: It Books, 2013

Synopsis

It was the year that Cold War protagonists sought a truce, the race into space stepped up a gear, feminism and civil rights flexed their political muscles, and President Kennedy's assassination numbed the world. But as the front pages of history were being printed, the scoop of the century slipped by unnoticed. On January 13th 1963, two then largely unknown acts made their first appearances on nationwide television in Britain. Neither The Beatles nor Bob Dylan could have known it at the time, but by some strange alchemy the anthems of a social upheaval were being heard by a mass audience-and they were the catalyst. Within the year, their voices were commanding millions of ears around the world. The Beatles had become the poster boys of a revolution that still influences us to this day, and Dylan its prophet. 1963, in short, saw the birth of a global demographic power shift. Within that one year, youth, for the first time in history had become a commercial and cultural force that commanded the attention of government and religion and exercised the power to shape society. 1963 is the first book to recount the kinetic story of the emancipation of youth through music, fashion, and the arts - and in the voices of those who changed the world so radically, from Keith Richards to Eric Clapton, Mary Quant to Vidal Sassoon, Graham Nash to Peter Frampton, Alan Parker to Gay Talese, Stevie Nicks to Norma Kamali, and many more. It is an oral history that records, documentary-style, the incredible roller-coaster ride of that year when a group of otherwise obscure teenagers would become global superstars. It serves not only as a fast-paced historical eyewitness record but as an inspiration to anyone in search of a passion, an identity, and a dream.

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Review:

A lively, insightful read about a transformative year. (Dan Rather)

A vivid and exhilarating guide to the year that revolutionized pop culture and shook the world, told by the movers and the shakers, themselves. (Mick Brown, author of Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector)

An extraordinary year, a great cast of characters, a terrific book. (Sir Alan Parker)

...a must read for anyone interested in how pop culture, and particularly pop music, was both representative of the age and a catalyst for change. (Victoria Broackes, Head of Performance Exhibitions, V&A Museum London)

About the Author:

Ariel Leve is an award-winning journalist who has written for publications including the Guardian, FT Magazine, Telegraph, Observer and the Sunday Times Magazine where she was a senior writer on contract from 2003-2011. Her first book, It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me was a collection of her popular Cassandra column which ran weekly in the Sunday Times Magazine for five years. She was shortlisted twice for Interviewer of the Year at the British Press Awards and Highly Commended in 2010. Robin Morgan is an award winning British journalist and editor who was the longest serving editor-in-chief of The London Sunday Times Magazine (1991-2009). He has worked as a news editor, foreign correspondent and investigative journalist (1979-1991) covering such events as the Iranian Hostage Crisis, Irangate, and The Gulf War and was awarded British Campaigning Journalist Of The Year honours in both 1982 and 1983. His editorship of the magazine accumulated six national journalism awards including the acclaimed OneWorld Award for an innovative campaign to eradicate preventible blindness in the third world which saved the sight of more than 1.7million women and children in 17 countries. He has written extensively on subjects ranging from crime and conflict to international affairs and has published nine books including photo-biographies of Frank Sinatra, Elton John and James Bond. He lives in London where he now divides his time between managing the photographic and multi-media creative agency, Iconic Images and writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: It Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062120441
• ISBN 13: 9780062120441
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256