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17 October 2020

9:00 AM

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America David Hepworth

Transworld, pp.336, 20

In his latest book, the veteran pop commentator David Hepworth is concerned with satisfaction, its acquisition and maintenance. On record, satisfaction was something the Rolling Stones found notoriously hard to get — ‘an itch you could never quite scratch’. In reality, it was a commodity the groups spearheading the British invasion of the 1960s — the Stones, the Beatles, the Dave Clark Five and others — discovered to be plentiful in the USA.

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