"In the interval between two world wars, sophistication, glamour and light-heartedness obscured an underlying fear of extinction." Chapter 2 - 'It's a Boy!', p9

"The truth is, though, that my experience of felling alone, different, alien, was much more 'normal' than I realized." Chapter 3 - 'You Didn't See It', p28

"After decades of dealing with military threats, our parents now faced a danger from within. 'Youth' was what it came to be called." Chapter 4 - 'A Teenage Kind of Vengeance', p38

"Of course we understood. We were the innocent victims of a struggle between the old and the new." Chapter 5 - 'The Detours', p50

"The Kinks were playing quite a few of the same R&B songs that we did, and they somehow managed to be poetic, wistful, witty, wry and furiously petulant all at once. Along with the Stones, I will always regard them as a primary...