1966: The Year the Decade Exploded

Winner of the Penderyn Music Prize

A Guardian Music Book of the Year, 2015

Featuring a new foreword by David Mitchell

Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage has created a monument to the year that shaped the future of global pop cultural history.

'One of Britain's most trusted cultural historians.' - THE FACE

In America, London, Amsterdam, and Paris, revolutionary ideas that had been brewing since the late 1950s reached a boiling point in 1966. This pivotal year saw the transient pop moment truly burst forth. Exploring canonical figures from The Beatles and Pauline Boty to Andy Warhol and Ronald Reagan, 1966 delves deep into the social and cultural heart of the decade using masterfully compiled archival primary sources.

'A marvel of historical reconstruction and pop insight.' - OBSERVER

'Absorbing . . . this is not only fine pop writing, but social history of a high order.' - GUARDIAN

'Savage is rightly regarded as one of the finest cultural critics of the past 40 years . . . an enthralling, exhilarating read.' - IRISH TIMES

'Exceptional.' - MOJO

(This book is part of a reissue of Jon Savage's seminal works: 1966, Teenage, and England's Dreaming.)