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1967
- How I Got There and Why I Never Left
- Narrated by: Robyn Hitchcock
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
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Summary
1967 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.
When 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.
In 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...
At 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?
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- D J Salinger
- 13-07-24
Unique
It’s great to hear about this transformative year in Robyn’s life and the life of the UK. It makes me hanker for a book by him about every year since. On a practical level I’m now prepared for which cheese to bring to an alien abduction.
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- Steve Rawlings
- 29-06-24
1967 and all this!
Robyn’s account of his milestone relationship with one of the most culturally significant years of the twentieth century is totally engaging. As a fan of Robyn Hitchcock’s creative work, the memoir provides a hugely entertaining, honest and moving insight into the influences and inspirations of the day, the magic of which continues into the present in the shapes and contours of the artist’s output. I loved it.
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- MumOfFour
- 24-07-24
I wanna destroy you
I am not old enough to remember the 1967 that Robyn describes but there are echoes of his coming of age in my own story 10 years alter. I did not have the public school experience and the backdrop of Dylan, the Beatles, Pink Floyd and the Incredible String Band (yet oddly no Rolling Stones) but I had my own through which flowed the same youth coming to terms with life in 1977 and 1978. But for me special mention must go to I wanna destroy you by the Soft Boys which came out in 1980 when I was 18. A pox upon the media and everything you read. They tell you your opinions and they're very good indeed! I have seen him a number of times over the last 44 years most recently in the US 6 years ago. I am again in September and I can't wait.
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- Klutz
- 06-09-24
Wonderful listen!
A splendid trip through Robyn’s childhood leading up to 1967. A special year for music and records that many of us still love. Recommended 😎
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