When Reading Really Rocked Rafik Schami outside of a narrow nationalism

outside of a narrow nationalism and theocracy that has constrained the country's politics for almost 100 years

Soviet and Chinese totalitarianism has been used to discredit the idealism of

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Written at a time when LGBT+ people enjoyed increased visibility but faced continued discrimination and assault from conservative governments

When Reading Really Rocked Rafik Schami outside of a narrow nationalismRelive the decade when Reading's music scene turned itself up to 11 and really started to rock. This hugely well informed and entertaining account of live music in Reading between 1966 and 1976 charts the journey from the emergence of psychedelia to the dawn of punk, and brings into focus the many musicians and bands from The Amboy Dukes to The Who that played at venues around the town. Read about the early years of the Reading Festival, lost and much