Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-ins, the Screw Ups, the Sixties - Softcover

Neville, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747523452 ISBN 13: 9780747523451

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1996

Synopsis

When Richard Neville arrived in London in 1966, the first thing he did was visit Biba: 'the famous boutique throbbed with The Animals, cash registers and skimpily clad women ...the air was tinged with hash ...I nearly fainted'. Five years later, Neville was sentenced to fifteen months for publishing an obscene article, "Schoolkids Oz", and John Lennon joined the throngs of protestors singing his own composition "God Save Oz". In the intervening years, as editor of "Oz", the hippies' handbook and a totem to psychedelia, Neville was at the centre of the Sixties youthquake, surrounded by rock musicians, intellectuals, artists, and fabulous freaks. It was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius ...and then the hash hit the fan.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Neville is the author of the cult bestseller THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES SOBRHAJ, co-authored by the Australian journalist Julie Clarke, whom he later married. His novel PLAYING AROUND was published in 1991. As a columnist and broadcaster he remains a controversial social commentator, and his fifth book, OUT OF MY MIND, contains the best of his output from the end of OZ to the present day. He lives with his wife and two daughters near Sydney, on a bush property within the Blue Mountains National park in New South Wales, Australia.

Review:

"Utterly unputdownable."- Sunday Times
"More dopers, visionaries, groupies, loonies, con artists, and sharks than you can wave a spliff at . . . Hugely enjoyable." — Time Out



"An entrancingly wicked account of the greatest decade ever." — Marie Claire



"The perfect sixties book . . . the definitive guide to the sex and drugs shebang." — Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0747523452
• ISBN 13: 9780747523451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376