{"product_id":"9781408720561","title":"1967","description":"Author: Robyn Hitchcock\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781408720561\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 12 Aug 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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...\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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?","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46713731743902,"sku":"ADS-9781408720561","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781408720561.jpg?v=1776039386","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781408720561","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}