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CONTRIBUTORS Tom Carson is a staff writer for the Village Voice, for whom he has written about television, music, and politics. He contributed to The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll and his writing appears in On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word (1990), edited by Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin. James Miller is Director of Liberal Studies and Professor of Political Science, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research. He was the original editor of The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll and is the author of The Passion of Michel Foucault (1993). His new book, Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977, is scheduled for publication in August 1999. Charles Shaar Murray is the author of Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Post-War Rock 'n' Roll Revolution (1989), winner of a 1990 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. He is also the author of Shots from the Hip (1991), a collection of 20 years of his writing for the New Musical Express, as well as Blues on CD: The Essential Guide (1993). His new book, Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century, is scheduled to be published in 1999. Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (1992), winner of the 1992 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. He also is the author of The Kinks: The Official Biography (1984) and Time Travel (1996), and the editor, with Hanif Kureishi, of The Faber Book of Pop (1995). His recent work includes The Brian Epstein Story, a documentary on the Beatles' manager televised in Britain in 1998 and scheduled for broadcast in the United States on A&E in 1999. He is currently writing a history of 20th-century youth culture. Ira A. Robbins is Editorial Director for MJI Broadcasting. He cofounded Trouser Press magazine (1974-84) and is the editor, with David Sprague, of The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock: The All-New Fifth Edition of The Trouser Press Record Guide (1997), and the author of Test Your Rock IQ: The '60s and the '70s (1995). He also oversees trouserpress.com, to which he contributes the column "Surface Noise." Richard Williams writes for The Independent. He has been sports editor and editor of the Sunday Review for The Independent on Sunday, and editor of Melody Maker, Time Out, and the feature pages of The Times. He is the author of Dylan: A Man Called Alias (1992) and The Death of Ayrton Senna (1995).
Photos of transistor radios, record players, 45s and albums, teen magazines, vintage clothing, memorabilia of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who © Joel DeGrand Special thanks to Alan Bayert; Mat Biscan; Aydin Dincer of Prairie Joe's, Evanston, Ill.; Sheryl Ferraro; Vic E. Ferraro; Paulina Jimčnez; Brigitte Kirchgatterer; Gail Radzevich; Olga Sheynin; Marilyn Stone; Viva Vintage, Evanston, Ill.; Judith West; and Barbara Whitney Animation Introduction: (photo) Express Newspapers/Archive Photos; (audio) Archive FilmsBeatles Tour Map: (photo) Michael Ochs Archives, Venice, Calif. COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARKS, and USAGE The British Invasion is copyrighted 1999 by Encyclopędia Britannica, Inc. Britannica and Encyclopędia Britannica are registered trademarks of Encyclopędia Britannica, Inc. eBLAST is a trademark of Encyclopędia Britannica, Inc. Hyperlinks to other Internet resources are provided for your convenience. The editors of The British Invasion have selected these resources as having some value and pertinence, but their development and maintenance are not under the direction of Britannica. Thus, the content, accuracy, opinions expressed, and other links provided by these resources are neither verified by the The British Invasion editors nor endorsed by Britannica. If you believe that any copyright infringement exists on this site, please inform Britannica immediately.
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