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Generation X (1965 book)

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Country
  
United Kingdom

Publication date
  
1965

Originally published
  
1965

OCLC
  
828705

Language
  
English

Pages
  
192 pp.

Author
  
Charles Hamblett

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Publisher
  
Universal-Tandem Publishing

Generation X is a 1965 165-page book on popular youth culture by British journalists, Jane Deverson and Charles Hamblett. It contains interviews with teenagers who were part of the Mod subculture. It began as a series of interviews in a 1964 study of British youth, commissioned by British lifestyle magazine Woman's Own where Deverson worked. The interviews detailed a culture of promiscuous and anti-establishment youth, and was seen as inappropriate for the magazine.

Generation X, a punk rock band that English musician Billy Idol formed in 1976, was named after the book—a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.

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Generation X (1965 book) Wikipedia