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Product Description After their parents' extraordinary experience of the war, the future welcomed them with open arms to a world of extraordinary ordinariness and the illusion of blatant consumerism, which they set about exploiting and dismantling. If you want to read about 'Swinging London' in the sixties this book is not for you. This book is a memoir of one of the faceless faces of the baby boom. How to avoid work and influence people ? Read on. About the Author Brian Nevill is a baby boomer born of Anglo-German parents in occupied Germany. Raised an only child in the post-war suburbs of Surrey and Kent, he had a secondary modern education before beginning a career in varying jobs as a motor mechanic, estimating clerk,RAC itinerary planner, market gardener and warehouseman. At the age of nineteen, having played drums in semi-professional groups, he tried his hand at turning professional. When this gained him much experience but little remunerative reward, Brian returned to 'day' work. This period included publishing an underground newspaper and eventually moving to west London and working for a London underground paper. Selling records at his own indoor market stall on Portobello Road was followed by working in many of London's specialist record shops over the next few years. When the lure of playing music returned it led to Brian's longest period as a professional musician,travelling extensively and living in Europe and the United States. Another lull in his music career caused him to take on freelance music consultancy work, a role that brought writing back into Brian's life. Since 'retiring' from this, he has turned to his other first love, that of writing proper. Boom Baby is his first novel. He is married, has no children, has a large record collection, and lives in London.