1966: The Year the Decade Exploded - Softcover

[A] sprawling tour de force about the pop music of 1966 and the seismic events in the world that helped shape it ... vast in detail, breathtaking in scope and ambition. -- Richard Whitehead, The Times

A marvel of historical reconstruction and pop insight. -- Ian Thomson, Observer

This was 1966; nobody quite knew what was going on. Now, thanks to this exceptional slice of pop culture history, we do. -- Mojo

From pop to politics, 1966 brilliantly explores how one pivotal year changed our culture., Stylist

Savage's best and most vital book since England's Dreaming. An intoxicating, cross-cultural survey that uniquely conveys the pure excitement and power of pop as a weapon for change. As always, after reading, you have learned something new which subtly shifts your pop-consciousness. -- Nicky Wire

It's a strength of this project that Savage opts out of the most told stories ... the selection here of the unexpected, as a means to weave multiple contradictory strands together without losing clarity, is one of the book's pleasures., The Wire

[C]ultural chronicler Jon Savage ..., in his erudite new book, remembers the year through its seminal pop music and the influence it had upon a rapidly changing world., Esquire

From Haight Ashbury to pirate radio, via the prosecution of the Rollling Stones and the arrival of the first double-album by a major artist (Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde), 1966 represents both a watershed and a high water mark in post war culture, a delineating moment the author documents in 12 chapters, each of which focuses on a scene-setting 45 while using primary sources to relay first-hand just how a single year turned into a epoch., GQ

Savage is to be congratulated for confounding the preconceptions of the there's-nothing-new-you-can-tell-me-about-this brigade once again. Having achieved the same in his now seminal punk text England's Dreaming, and surpassing it via the pages of the extraordinary and revelatory Teenage, 1966sets a new benchmark in cultural storytelling., Wales Arts Review

Exquisitely written, stuffed full of great ideas and crackling with music, this is not only a great book about pop culture but about the sixties themselves and is a riveting and thrilling can't put down read., Louder Than War

Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols, Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945 and Punk Rock. Teenage, a film by Jon Savage and Matt Wolf, is released in cinemas from 24 January