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 19721982, 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.