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Synopsis
"...without a shadow of a doubt one of the best memoirs of the London underground you will ever read..." Hugh Dellar "...they were the underground of the underground and their story tells us more about the age in which they emerged..." Shindig Magazine In 1967, a collective of artists, musicians, poets and dancers moved into a street in North London and began a radical experiment in communal living. The press called them 'hippies' and 'drop-outs', the neighbours threw bricks through their windows, the police harassed and framed them; but they were a significant creative force in the artistic and social revolutions of the Sixties, encompassing the work of David Medalla, Gerald Fitzgerald and many others. This was 'The Exploding Galaxy', and here, for the first time, one of the founder members, Jill Drower, tells the story of the group, from its inception in March 1967 to its dispersal at the end of 1968. 99 Balls Pond Road is the story of the people, the places, and the art of this momentous period. Drawing on personal experience and extensive interviews with former members of the Exploding Galaxy, and including twenty in-depth profiles of the people they were then and now, and over two hundred photographs, this is an evocative and insightful depiction of the years when art began transforming society, and the Exploding Galaxy explored the possibilities of transforming life itself. "...her interviews with many of the women involved in the Galaxy introduce another perspective on the 'sexual revolution' ..." The England Gallery "...If the past is a foreign country, Jill Drower's work is a guide ... to remote and previously unexplored valleys of London's alternative culture ..." John Oliphant, Social Historian "...corruscatingly honest about the class divisions, the elitism, the everyday sexism, and the dark edge to the permissiveness so prevalent at UFO and elsewhere ..." Shindig Magazine
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- PublisherScrudge Books
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 099277750X
- ISBN 13 9780992777500
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages496
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