Through a long and chequered career, Mick Farren has functioned as a writer, poe
t, rock star, recording artist, rabble-rouser, critic and commentator, and even
won a protracted obscenity trial at the Old Bailey. After resisting the idea for
a long time, he has finally written his own highly personal and insightful acco
unt of the British counterculture in the 1960s and '70s, from the perspective of
one who was right there in the thick of it. With a continuing and unashamed com
mitment to the tradition of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, he recounts a rollerco
aster odyssey - sometimes violent and often hilarious - from early beatnik adven
tures in Ladbroke Grove, through the flowering hippies to the snarl of punk.
