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The Restless Generation Paperback – January 1, 2007

by Pete Frame (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Omnibus Press (January 1, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0952954079
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0952954071
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.75 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.09 x 1.46 x 6.14 inches
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    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 57 ratings

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Dean Magnusson
5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting from the start.
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2013
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I'm a fan of Pete Frame to start out. I halfway expected to see a 50's version of the famous trees Pete's known for. Instead I get a thick book that is like a novel, but it starts out with the beginning of Rock And Roll through skiffle music and how it got started by giving some people the credit, and from there, taking the lives of those he gave credit to, and sharing in 3rd person narrative how the lives were beginning from their earliest recollection of when they got interested in music, be it jazz, blues, skiffle, etc. Mostly Jazz. The narrative starts in post war time, and how the British musicians went to school, their families social, economic and geographic status, and how some have served their country in the military, some just getting involved in what they love and that is music. I've not read too much yet, just got the book, but like what I've read so far. It makes me think of my father who from my earliest recollection, owned a trumpet and a guitar. He taught himself how to use the guitar, and I believe he learned how to play the trumpet through school program being a member of a band of the school, probably during the days he attended school in Alaska, as well as the ski team. I can only surmise he got the interest in his trumpet first, base on the time frame, and from what I've read so far, the genre of music being played in that day, Jazz, and nearing the time of my birth, the early onset of the roots of rock and roll. Can't wait to get back to the book to finish reading it.
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Jimmy
5.0 out of 5 stars A social as much as a music history
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2022
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This is the story of how skiffle and rock and roll, to a great extent, simultaneously, overcame the stratified class and social structure of British society and media, to emerge in a nation still recovering from WWII. It's the story of young people who would not be denied. And it is told by a writer who is not willing to hide his own opinions, can be quite acerbic, and frequently, lets the written record of the critics and media personalities of the day be their own undoing. Recommended! Highly recommended.
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Gordon Stuart Watson
4.0 out of 5 stars From the coffee bars to the charts- the birth of British rock in the fifties
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2012
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As illustrated in his series of Rock Family Trees, Pete Frame's attention to detail is extraordinary. I was drawn to this book by a reference to it in Addition 111. So many 50's stories have been told by all and sundry that to read such a seemingly accurate account of events, makes a refreshing change. Rock 'n Roll became the focus of Frame's life and as a teenager from the mid Fifties, the story of this groundbreaking decade unfurls as if he is the official commentator. Whilst he states that he began collecting interviews for the book in '89, there can be little doubt of the dates,sources, accuracy and detail. My teenage years were in the decade after the author's and, until I read this book,I had many misconceptions. I had judged, for example, the likes of Tommy Steele from his 'all round entertainer perspective' and substantially underrated his contribution to the emergence of British Rock music. Employed by music Majors for 25 yrs from the early seventies, when UK productions were already sophisticated, it was particularly interesting and somewhat disconcerting to read how early record companies tailored their recordings to the somewhat antiquated programming policies and how programming of American music was resticted. This is a 'must read' for all music fans and full of fascinating information. I liked it a lot.
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Jay L. Hastings
5.0 out of 5 stars great insight
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2022
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I’ve been trying to learn how the Brits took American Blues and fed it back to us as Rock and Roll. This taught me a lot.
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Jani W.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating cultural and historical analysis of the movement.
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2018
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Very entertaining
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Peter Noone
5.0 out of 5 stars Get this book
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2017
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Amazing but true
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Libby e berman
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for fans of english rock and roll!
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2022
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I chose to read this on Al Stewart's recommendation; mentioned in an interview referencing ' The Class of '58'. This is an important, highly readable, fascinating history of how traditional jazz led to skiffle, which ended with the first British invasion- Kinks, Beatles, etc. Despite being 500 pages, this is a fast read. I cannot recommend this book enough.
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60s ken
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent early uk music book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2023
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An excellent and very informative book on the early rock and roll and skiffle music in Britain. It’s written in an interesting way
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Kenneth Barrett
5.0 out of 5 stars Rock On
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2018
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Told with humour and the kind of insight that comes from interviewing, over a long period, so many of the people who helped make it happen, this account by Pete Frame is the definitive story of British rock 'n' roll through the 1950s.

For those of us who were there, even if only just, the old names have a cosy familiarity, and the author describes how each of them came to their usually brief moment of glory.

He also describes how with the stultifying attitudes at the BBC and in the record companies, rock was very nearly strangled at birth. Only public demand, and the emergence of a few savvy industry figures, enabled the talent to flourish. And, unlikely that it would have seemed at the time, from that emerged a worldwide phenomenon.

How lucky I was to have lived through it all.
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Anthony Murphy
4.0 out of 5 stars Thorough, if over-detailed, coverage of a thrilling decade
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 22, 2022
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Frame leaves no stone unturned in his blow-by -blow account. The narrative at times is subsumed in minutiae but his passion carries the reader breathlessly through this epochal decade.
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martin scott
5.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly brilliant - literally
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 22, 2018
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How to research a staggering quantity of social history and make it as readable as a thriller. Wonderful. If you have a baby boomer music fan in your family, here’s their Christmas present.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An astonishingly comprehensive work about the development of rock'n'roll culture ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2016
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An astonishingly comprehensive work about the development of rock'n'roll culture in Britain in the 1950's, written by one of the most knowledgable music authors on the planet. A must read for anyone interested in the history of British music and youth culture.
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