{"product_id":"9781408720554","title":"1967","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Robyn Hitchcock\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMusic | Music: styles \u0026amp; genres | Popular music, easy listening | Rock \u0026amp; Pop music | Memoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 27\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e June 2024 by Little, Brown Book Group (Constable) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 224 pages, integrated b\u0026amp;w illustrations (author's own) \u003cbr\u003e222mm x 138mm | 0g\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"gardners-meta\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1967 explores how that pivotal slice of time tastes to a bright, obsessive\/compulsive boy who is shipped off to a hothouse academic boarding school as he reaches the age of 13; just as Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited starts to bite, and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band explodes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he arrives in January 1966 Robyn Hitchcock is still a boy pining for his green Dalek sponge and his family's comforting au pair, Teresa. By December 1967 he's mutated into a 6 ft 2 inch rabid Bob Dylan fan, whose two ambitions in life are to get really stoned and move to Nashville.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn between - as the hippie revolution blossoms in the world outside - Hitchcock adjusts to the hierarchical, homoerotic world of Winchester (think Gormenghast via Evelyn Waugh), threading a path through teachers with arrested development, some oafish peers, and a sullen old maid - a very English freak show. On the way he befriends a cadre of bat-winged teenage prodigies and meets their local guru, the young Brian Eno. And his home life isn't any more normal...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the end of 1967 all the ingredients are in place that will make Robyn Hitchcock a songwriter for life. But then again, does 1967 ever really end?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41135918186631,"sku":"9781408720554","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781408720554.jpg?v=1711640225","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9781408720554","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}