Cruises through popular British culture of the 1960s and 1970s by way of a collection of eclecti, illustrated essays. With an emphasis on the 'throwaway' world of sex, drugs, movies, comics and rockn'roll, Glam and Gutter are explored in detail, courtesy of an occasional surprising diversion... From cliched hippies to nonconformists, through trend-crushing youth movements to pop stars in bad horror movies and prog rock, nothing is safe from the crushed velveteen grasp of Psychedelic Decadence.
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Cruises through popular British culture of the 1960s and 1970s by way of a collection of eclecti, illustrated essays. With an emphasis on the 'throwaway' world of sex, drugs, movies, comics and rockn'roll, Glam and Gutter are explored in detail, courtesy of an occasional surprising diversion... From cliched hippies to nonconformists, through trend-crushing youth movements to pop stars in bad horror movies and prog rock, nothing is safe from the crushed velveteen grasp of Psychedelic Decadence.