{"product_id":"9781408720561","title":"1967 : How I Got There and Why I Never Left","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Hitchcock, Robyn \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 08\/05\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 224 pages, integrated b\u0026amp;w illustrations (author's own),\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781408720561,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1967 explores how that pivotal slice of time tastes to a bright, obsessive\/compulsive boy who is shipped off to a hothouse academic boarding school as he reaches the age of 13; just as Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited starts to bite, and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band explodes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he arrives in January 1966 Robyn Hitchcock is still a boy pining for his green Dalek sponge and his family's comforting au pair, Teresa. By December 1967 he's mutated into a 6 ft 2 inch rabid Bob Dylan fan, whose two ambitions in life are to get really stoned and move to Nashville.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn between - as the hippie revolution blossoms in the world outside - Hitchcock adjusts to the hierarchical, homoerotic world of Winchester (think Gormenghast via Evelyn Waugh), threading a path through teachers with arrested development, some oafish peers, and a sullen old maid - a very English freak show. On the way he befriends a cadre of bat-winged teenage prodigies and meets their local guru, the young Brian Eno. And his home life isn't any more normal...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the end of 1967 all the ingredients are in place that will make Robyn Hitchcock a songwriter for life. But then again, does 1967 ever really end?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55352374002037,"sku":"9781408720561","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781408720561_2af533fa-99a4-49b6-9808-db7f16eb8a05.jpg?v=1759657361","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781408720561","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}