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Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser
Groovy Bob The Life and Times of Robert Fraser Author:Harriet Vyner The first authorized biography of one of 1960s London's most influential trendsetters. Arrested for possession of drugs with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in the infamous 1967 Redlands bust, Robert Fraser embodied many of the elements that made up Swinging London in the 1960s: pop music, fashion, drugs, art, and cinema. Yet he was himself a c... more »urious representative of his culture. An Eton-educated, former Kings African Rifles officer, and the son of a highly successful banker, Fraser was a promiscuous homosexual who avoided the gay scene. He was also a trendsetter, a hedonist, and a lousy businessman, whose artists -- including Peter Blake, Bridget Riley, Richard Hamilton, Jim Dine, Andy Warhol, and Ed Ruscha -- adored him. By the time of his death from complications due to AIDS in 1986, he had become an almost forgotten figure, his sixties vision out of tune with the conservatism of the eighties. In this new biography, the first to have the complete co-operation of Fraser's family and friends, Harriet Vyner has recreated not only an extraordinary figure, but also a compelling and colorful era. Told through the voices of those who knew Fraser best -- Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Kenneth Anger, Dennis Hopper, and many others -- Groovy Bob is both a fascinating biography and a portrait of the most exhilarating period in postwar British social history.« less