The London Boys - David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream

The London Boys - David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream written

by Marc Burrows and published by Pen & Sword Books - £20 - Hardback - Pages 264

Rock n roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons:

David Bowie and Marc Bolan spent the first part of their careers following remarkably similar

paths. From the day they met in 1965 as Davie Jones and Mark Feld, rock n roll wannabes

painting their manager's office in London’s Denmark Street, they would remain friends and

rivals, each watching closely and learning from the other. In the years before they launched

an unbeatable run of era-defining glam rock masterpieces at the charts, they were both just

another face on the scene, meeting for coffee in Soho, hanging out at happenings and

jamming in parks. Here, they are our guides through the decade that changed everything,

as the gloom of post-war London exploded into the technicolour dream of the swinging sixties,

a revolution in music, fashion, art and sexuality. Part duel-biography, part social history, part

musical celebration of an era, The London Boys follows the British youth culture explosion

through they eyes of two remarkable young men on the front lines of history.

A fantastic book that looks at the early lives before super stardom of two of Britain's

biggest stars in David Bowie and Marc Bolan from the 60’s, with a good bit of social

history thrown into the mix. The book looks at the teenage years and early careers

of these two music stars during the decade of the 1960’s. London youth culture and

the music industry are all revealed here through great stories and if you're a fan of

these two guys or the sixties, you should really enjoy this book. Some good work

and research has gone into this book, and it's one I would happily recommend to

anyone.