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

From the bestselling music author, this is the tale of how a few skinny Brits with bad teeth rocked America…

The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most powerful nation on earth was trying to emulate the music, manners and the modes of a rainy island that had recently fallen on hard times.

The resulting fusion of American can-do and British fuck-you didnt just lead to rock and rolls most resonant music. It ushered in a golden era when a generation of kids born in ration card Britain, who had grown up with their nose pressed against the window of Americas plenty, were invited to wallow in their big neighbours largesse.

It deals with a time when everything that was being do