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Halfway to Paradise: The Birth of British Rock

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For nearly two decades Harry Hammond was Britain's leading showbiz photographer. Starting in the late-1940s, his camera captured the definitive images of virtually every leading British musician, as well as visiting Americans. Drawing on the invaluable archive of over 11,000 images housed in the V&A, Alwyn W Turner tells the story of Britain's embrace and ultimate domination of rock 'n' roll, from the earliest days with Bill Haley and the Comets to the emergence of the Beatles and Merseybeat. This remarkable collection includes photographs of Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent, Billy Fury, Johnny Kidd, Cliff Richard, Eddie Cochran, the Animals, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Dusty Springfield and many more.

Author/Artist/Designer

Alwyn W. Turner

Pages

240

Dimensions

287 x 247 mm

ISBN

9781851775538

Colour

Product code

94331

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About the author

Alwyn W. Turner

Alwyn W Turner is a widely published writer on British popular culture. He has contributed to The Rough Guide to Rock and the BBC website, and once ghosted a book for Screaming Lord Sutch. He is the co-author of Cult Rock Posters 1972-1982, editor of Portmeirion, and author of Halfway to Paradise: The Birth of British Rock (V&A 2008), My Generation: The Glory Years of British Rock (V&A 2010), and the acclaimed trilogy on modern British history, Crisis? What Crisis?, Rejoice! Rejoice! and A Classless Society, as well as The Biba Experience and The Man Who Invented the Daleks.