Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There write by David Hepworth. This book was released on 2020-09-17. Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most powerful nation on earth was trying to emulate the music, manners and the modes of a rainy island that had recently fallen on hard times. The resulting fusion of American can-do and British fuck-you didn’t just lead to rock and roll’s most resonant music. It ushered in a golden era when a generation of kids born in ration card Britain, who had grown up with their nose pressed against the window of America’s plenty, were invited to wallow in their big neighbour’s largesse. It deals with a time when everything that was being done - from the Beatles playing Shea Stadium to the Rolling Stones at Altamont, from the Who performing their rock opera at the Metropolitan Opera House to David Bowie touching down in the USA for the first time with a couple of gowns in his luggage - was being done for the very first time. Rock and roll would never be quite so exciting again.
"Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here"
"Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here" write by Juliet Gardiner. This book was released on 1992. "Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Uncommon People
Uncommon People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncommon People write by David Hepworth. This book was released on 2017-11-21. Uncommon People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal An elegy to the age of the Rock Star, featuring Chuck Berry, Elvis, Madonna, Bowie, Prince, and more, uncommon people whose lives were transformed by rock and who, in turn, shaped our culture Recklessness, thy name is rock. The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations. What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had. What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn’t stay the course. In Uncommon People, David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments and turning points in the lives of forty rock stars from 1955 to 1995, taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths and create a hundred more. As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies, they also shaped us, our real lives and our fantasies. Uncommon People isn’t just their story. It’s ours as well.
Over-sexed, Over-paid, and Over Here
Over-sexed, Over-paid, and Over Here - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Over-sexed, Over-paid, and Over Here write by John Hammond Moore. This book was released on 1981. Over-sexed, Over-paid, and Over Here available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Taking Leave, Taking Liberties
Taking Leave, Taking Liberties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taking Leave, Taking Liberties write by Aaron Hiltner. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Taking Leave, Taking Liberties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be “overpaid, oversexed, and over here.” But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn’t only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by the “good war.” To the contrary, millions of American and Allied troops regularly poured into ports like New York and Los Angeles while on leave. Euphemistically called “friendly invasions,” these crowds of men then forced civilians to contend with the same kinds of crime and sexual assault unfolding in places like Britain, France, and Australia. With unsettling clarity, Aaron Hiltner reveals what American troops really did on the home front. While GIs are imagined to have spent much of the war in Europe or the Pacific, before the run-up to D-Day in the spring of 1944 as many as 75% of soldiers were stationed in US port cities, including more than three million who moved through New York City. In these cities, largely uncontrolled soldiers sought and found alcohol and sex, and the civilians living there—women in particular—were not safe from the violence fomented by these de facto occupying armies. Troops brought their pocketbooks and demand for “dangerous fun” to both red-light districts and city centers, creating a new geography of vice that challenged local police, politicians, and civilians. Military authorities, focused above all else on the war effort, invoked written and unwritten legal codes to grant troops near immunity to civil policing and prosecution. The dangerous reality of life on the home front was well known at the time—even if it has subsequently been buried beneath nostalgia for the “greatest generation.” Drawing on previously unseen military archival records, Hiltner recovers a mostly forgotten chapter of World War II history, demonstrating that the war’s ill effects were felt all over—including by those supposedly safe back home.
