By Barry Miles
"I have an entire shelf of academic studies of bohemianism, the avant garde and the counterculture – the behaviour of beatniks, mods, rockers, hippies and punks - but I always prefer the memoirs of the actual participants.
"Only here do you get the flavour of day-to-day living, their concerns and gossip, what they eat, drink and wear, their attitudes to sex and politics, the background and context of life in the counter-culture. I have concentrated entirely on the London scene because that is the one I know and was a part of. They are in no particular order."...[continued]
