Autorentext

Harriet Vyner is the author of Among Ruins, coauthor of Jools Holland's autobiography, Bare Faced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts, and cocurator of a recent exhibition on the life and work of Robert Fraser at Pace London.

Klappentext

Robert Fraser owned a gallery in London at the height of the Swingin' Sixties, and--as no less than Paul McCartney has said--he all but personified the period for his vast network of friends, fans, and hangers-on. This book tells Fraser's story through the voices of those friends, including McCartney, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Kenneth Anger, Malcolm McLaren, Bridget Riley, and many more. An unprecedented close-up of the man who introduced the world to Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Claes Oldenburg, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michael Basquiat, Groovy Bob brings the '60's London art scene, its wild parties and creative fervor, unforgettably to life.

Zusammenfassung
Acclaimed on first publication, 'Groovy Bob' is the cult biography of hedonistic gallery owner Robert Fraser and a dazzling evocation of 1960s culture and counter-culture. Taste-maker, heroin addict and promiscuous homosexual, Fraser astonished London with the artists he introduced, including Warhol, Blake, Haring, Oldenburg and Basquiat.