Diary of a Teddy Boy: A Memoir of the Long Sixties

(, New edition)

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The intoxicating buzz of the Sixties: fashion, theatre, film, and above all the great pop music, pulsing through the Soho clubs and Chelsea coffee bars. In his DIARY OF A TEDDY BOY, Mim Scala leads us on a hedonistic and richly humorous adventure, following Mim from his humble origins as an ice-cream salesman to gambler, agent, record producer and hippie traveller. Quintessentially of its time and ours, Mim Scala s memoir conveys like few others what it was like to experience, and to propel, the most pivotal decade of the twentieth century.

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One of the best evocations of the period that you are ever likely to come across

There are shades of Hunter S Thompson in Scala's helter-skelter journey... and hints of Kerouac in its wide-eyed abandon

Stepping out of your life and onto the pages of DIARY OF A TEDDY BOY is like getting out of a grey Morris Minor and into the seat of a Ferrari

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Born to an Italian immigrant family, Mim Scala grew up working in the family's ice cream parlour. He worked in the sixties in theatre, film and music before following the hippie trail to North Africa, to become a leading authority on world music. He now lives in Co. Carlow, Ireland.