London Calling (75 page)

18
John Russell,
Francis Bacon
, p.
21
.

19
John Banville, ‘False Friend’, in the
Sunday Telegraph
magazine, 27 February 2005.

20
John Russell,
Francis Bacon
, p.
71
.

21
George Melly,
Rum, Bum and Concertina
, p.
74
.

22
George Melly,
Don’t Tell Sybil
, p.
12
.

23
George Melly,
Rum, Bum and Concertina
, p.
113
.

24
ibid., p.
113
, and
Don’t Tell Sybil
, p.
52
.

25
Philip Oakes,
At the Jazz Band Ball
, p.
137
.

26
Dan Farson,
The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon
, p.
53
.

27
ibid., p.
54
.

28
Stanley Jackson,
An Indiscreet Guide to Soho
, p.
44
.

Chapter 4. The Stage and the Sets

1
Andrew Barrow,
Quentin & Philip
, p.
188
.

2
Crisp,
The Naked Civil Servant
, p.
160
.

3
Publicity handout for
An Evening With Quentin Crisp
, 1976.

4
Alex Witchel, ‘Quentin Crisp’.

5
www.televisionheaven.co.uk/harrysecombe.htm
, accessed December 2008. I am grateful to Colin Fallows for drawing my attention to Secombe’s early work.

6
Stanley Jackson,
An Indiscreet Guide to Soho
, p.
107
.

7
George Melly,
Rum, Bum and Concertina
, p.
86
.

8
Jane Williams (ed.),
Tambimutti
, p.
228
.

9
ibid., p.
98
.

10
Frank Norman and Jeffrey Bernard,
Soho Night & Day
, p.
143
.

11
Dan Farson,
The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon
, p.
73
.

12
Raymond Thorp,
Viper.

13
ibid.

14
ibid., pp.
29
–33.

15
Ronnie Scott,
Some of My Best Friends are Blues
, p.
40
.

16
George Melly,
Owning Up,
p.
39
.

17
Humphrey Lyttelton,
I Play As I Please
, p.
112
.

18
George Melly,
Owning Up
, p.
98
.

Chapter 5. This is Tomorrow

1
Ralph Rumney,
The Consul
, p.
37
.

2
Peter Everett,
You’ll Never be
16
Again
, p.
18
.

3
The Times
, 25 March 1954.

4
Daily Mail
, 27 April 1954.

5
George Melly,
Revolt into Style
, p.
38
.

6
Kenneth Coutts-Smith,
The Dream of Icarus
, p.
40
.

7
Richard Hamilton,
Collected Words
, p.
148
.

8
ibid., pp. 10–11.

9
Martin Harrison,
Transition
, p.
12
.

10
Ralph Rumney,
The Consul
, p.
18
.

11
ibid., p.
30
.

12
ibid., p.
18
.

13
ibid., p.
30
.

14
ibid., p.
37
.

15
ibid., p.
31
.

16
ibid., p.
74
.

17
Martin Harrison,
Transition
, p.
92
.

18
ibid., p.
92
.

19
ibid., p.
92
.

20
ibid., p.
105
.

21
Tate
4 (magazine).

22
David Robbins and Jacquelyn Baas,
The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty
, MIT Press, 1990, p.
190
.

23
Richard Hamilton, ‘Pop Daddy’, in
Tate Magazine
, 4 March 2003.

24
Motif
, winter 1962.

25
Richard Hamilton,
Collected Words
, p.
28
.

Chapter 6. Bookshops and Galleries

1
Christopher Logue,
Prince Charming
, p.
185
.

2
Dom Moraes,
My Son’s Father
, p.
171
.

3
Guardian
, 4 June 2004.

4
Robert Fraser,
The Chameleon Poet
, p. 239.

5
ibid., p.
236
.

6
Dom Moraes,
My Son’s Father
, p.
173
.

7
Dan Farson,
Out of Step,
p.
72
.

8
Quoted from unpublished MS in Robin Muir,
A Maverick Eye
, p.
11
.

9
Dan Farson,
Never a Normal Man
, p.
114
; Dan Farson,
Out of Step
, pp.
69
–
70
.

10
Henrietta Moraes,
Henrietta
, p.
72
.

11
ibid., p.
71
.

12
ibid., p.
72
.

13
Dan Farson,
Out of Step
, p.
243
.

14
Dan Farson,
The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon
, p.
190
.

15
Dan Farson,
Out of Step
, p.
244
.

16
Unpublished; quoted in Tony Gould,
Inside Outsider
, p.
111
.

17
Val Williams,
Ida Kar
, p.
22
.

18
ibid.

19
ibid., p.
26
.

20
ibid., p.
28
.

21
ibid., p.
64
.

22
Steven Henry Madoff, ‘Bridget Riley – First Break’, in
Art
Forum
, November 2002.

23
Dan Farson,
Out of Step
, p.
138
.

24
Dan Farson,
Never a Normal Man
, p.
248
.

Chapter 7. Angry Young Men

1
Humphrey Carpenter,
The Angry Young Men
, p.
158
.

2
New Statesman
, January 1954 (online).

3
Kenneth Allsop,
The Angry Decade
, p.
83
.

4
ibid., p.
83
.

5
John Osborne,
A Better Class of Person
, p.
275
.

6
The Times
, 26 May 1956.

7
‘The
Observer
’, in
Tynan on Theatre
, p.
42
.

8
Irving Wardle,
The Theatres of George Devine
.

9
ibid., p.
185
.

10
John Osborne, ‘Conversation with Richard Findlater’, in Findlater (ed.),
At the Royal Court
, p.
19
.

11
Kenneth Allsop,
The Angry Decade
, p.
96
.

12
Daily Mail
, 29 April 2006.

13
Colin Wilson,
The Outsider
, Victor Gollancz, London, 1956, p.
1
.

14
Colin Wilson,
Autobiographical Reflections
, Pauper’s Press, Nottingham, 1988, p.
20
.

15
Kenneth Allsop,
The Angry Decade
, p.
158
.

16
Colin Wilson,
Autobiographical Reflections
, pp.
111
–
12
.

17
ibid., p.
122
.

18
ibid., pp.
122
–
3
.

19
Kenneth Allsop,
The Angry Decade
, p.
153
.

20
Dan Farson,
Out of Step
, p.
129
.

21
ibid., p.
130
.

22
Kenneth Allsop,
The Angry Decade
, p.
161
.

23
Doris Lessing,
Walking in the Shade
, pp.
208
–
9
.

24
Tom Maschier (ed.),
Declaration,
p.
58
.

25
Daily Herald
, 15 October 1958.

26
Doris Lessing,
Walking in the Shade
, p.
214
.

Chapter 8. Pop Goes the Ease

1
Colin McInnes,
Absolute Beginners
.

2
Dan Farson,
The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon
, p.
45
.

3
Tony Gould,
Inside Outsider
, p.
81
.

4
ibid., p.
94
.

5
ibid., p.
118
.

6
In conversation with the author.

7
Colin MacInnes, ‘Nicked’, in
New Society
, 16 September 1965.

8
ibid.

9
Tony Gould,
Inside Outsider
, p.
104
.

10
ibid., p.
113

11
ibid., p.
114

12
ibid., p.
137

13
ibid., p.
199

14
Frank Norman, ‘Colin MacInnes, 1914–1976’, in the
New Statesman
, 30 April 1976.

15
Colin MacInnes,
Absolute Beginners
, p.
61
.

16
Quoted at ‘School of Francis Bacon’, at
www.alexalienart.com
/school_of_bacon.htm, accessed September 2006.

17
Dan Farson,
Never a Normal Man
, p.
256
.

18
John Richardson,
Sacred Monsters
, p.
327
.

19
ibid., p.
325
.

20
Tatler
, November 2006.

21
John Russell,
Francis Bacon
, pp.
87
–
8.

22
Art Review
, June 2002.

23
British Council Collection, entry for Lucien Freud:
http://collection.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/past/12/
15249.

24
Richard Cork,
The Times
, 3 May 2006.

25
John Tusa interviews, BBC website.

26
Chili Hawes (ed.),
Gerald Wilde
1905
–
1986, p.
15
.

27
ibid., pp.
4
and 50.

28
Gavin Stamp, ‘Anti-Ugly Action’, in
Blueprint
, January 2007.

29
Adam Smith,
Now You See Her – Pauline Boty – First Lady of British Pop
, at
www.writing-room.com
.

30
Christopher Logue,
Prince Charming
, p.
257
.

31
www.writing-room.com
, accessed 2006.

32
http://burning-brightly.tripod.com
/mrlacey.html, accessed September 2008.

Chapter 9. The Big Beat

1
George Melly,
Revolt into Style
, p.
147
.

2
Chas McDevitt,
Skiffle
, p. xvi.

3
Mary Quant,
Quant by Quant
, p.
34
–
5
.

4
Chas McDevitt,
Skiffle
, pp.
61
–
3
.

5
ibid., p. xv.

6
ibid., p.
147
.

7
Michael Moorcock interviewed by Patrick Hudson for
The Zone
, online science fiction magazine:
www.zone-sf.com
, accessed June 2009.

8
Chas McDevitt,
Skiffle
, p.
147
.

9
Alan Woods,
Ralph Rumney
, p.
38
.

10
Chas McDevitt,
Skiffle
, p.
115
.

11
Judith Summers,
Soho
, p.
197
.

12
Simon Napier-Bell,
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
, p.
43
.

13
ibid., p.
42
.

14
Chas McDevitt,
Skiffle
, p.
8
, quoting from Adam Faith,
Acts of Faith
, Bantam Books, London, 1996.

15
ibid., p.
51
.

16
Max Décharné,
King’s Road
, p.
63
.

17
Dick Heckstall-Smith and Pete Grant,
Blowing the Blues
, pp.
19
–
20
.

18
The story of the design of the Nuclear Disarmament badge is covered in detail in Barry Miles,
Peace
. The C N D was a major factor in the development of the youth counter-culture in Britain. There are a number of useful histories,
including Richard Taylor and Nigel Young (eds.),
Campaigns for Peace. British Peace Movements in the Twentieth Century
, Manchester University Press, 1987; Joan Ruddock,
C N D Scrapbook
, Macdonald Optima, London, 1987; Peggy Duff,
Left, Left, Left
, Allison and Busby, London, 1971, for an early, personal account; and the standard work, Kate Hudson,
C N D, Now More Than Ever. The Story of a Peace Movement,
Vision, London, 2005.

19
Spectator
, 12 April 1960.