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THE RESTLESS GENERATION
How Rock Music Changed the Face of 1950s Britain
by Pete Frame

Publication date: October 2007
512 pages
ISBN: 978.0.95295.407.1
Music Sales order number: JR 400180

Rogan House is pleased to announce the publication of a new book by rock historian and author Pete Frame, creator of ‘Rock Family Trees’.

‘The Restless Generation’ traces the emergence and rise of rock music in Britain – from the first stirrings of skiffle in suburban pubs and jazz clubs, through the primitive experimentation of teenage revolutionaries in the coffee bars of Soho, to the moulding and marketing of the first generation of television idols, and the eventual breakthrough of such global stars as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Immaculately researched and colourfully written, this is the definitive social history of a decade in which popular culture struggled loose from post-war austerity and fell prey to a new breed of youngsters, the first to reject conformity in the shape of institution haircuts and regulation grey, and express themselves as teenagers.

Tommy Steele, Lonnie Donegan, Cliff Richard, Marty Wilde, Mickie Most, Lionel Bart, Billy Fury, Joe Brown, Adam Faith, John Barry and Georgie Fame were just a few of those hoping to see their name in lights – while a massive supporting cast, including musicians, entrepreneurs, bohemians, disc jockeys, homosexuals, coffee bar cowboys, journalists, fans and crusty critics, watched the generation gap grow wider.

‘The Restless Generation’ is available from all good book stores and internet sources.