{"id":5831,"date":"2022-11-18T14:13:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2022-11-18T14:13:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:13:34","slug":"now-youve-met-the-london-boys-the-bolan-and-bowie-60s-years-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=5831","title":{"rendered":"Now You’ve Met The London Boys: The Bolan and Bowie \u201960s years book launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

SARAH GREGORY heads to London\u2019s celebrated Denmark Street for the launch of MARC BURROWS\u2019 new book <\/strong>The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan And The \u201960s Teenage Dream<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s remarkably fitting that the launch of new book The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan And The \u201960s Teenage Dream, <\/em>chronicling the pre-fame years of David Bowie (and Marc Bolan), should be held at Denmark Street\u2019s new venue The Lower Third \u2013 named as it is after one of the many \u201960s bands in which Bowie starred on his long road to superstardom.<\/p>\n

The work of writer, comedian and musician Marc Burrows, The London Boys <\/em>is a refreshing take on a well-trodden story \u2013 focussing on the days when Messrs. Bolan and Bowie were just two wannabes marauding the Soho streets hoping to be noticed: their stories dovetailing within the context of rapidly shifting societal norms. Both were Londoners, both spent their early years metamorphosising from jazz-heads, to mods, to hippies as they went in search of their own unique personas and both were singularly determined as they fought the tide of failed releases and revolving line-ups until they reached the brink of fame and fortune.<\/p>\n