Restless Generation

How Rock Music Changed the Face of 1950s Britain. From Tommy Steele to Cliff Richard and Billy Fury, the 1950s represented the birth pangs of rock 'n' roll music in the UK. Here is one of the most authoritative and complete histories of the social analysis of the era tracing the music's emergence fr [...]
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How Rock Music Changed the Face of 1950s Britain. From Tommy Steele to Cliff Richard and Billy Fury, the 1950s represented the birth pangs of rock 'n' roll music in the UK. Here is one of the most authoritative and complete histories of the social analysis of the era tracing the music's emergence from the primitive experimentation of teenage revolutionaries in the coffee bars of London's Soho, to the marketing of the first generation of television idols, to the eventual breakthrough of such global stars as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.