Groovy Bob by Harriet Vyner

Groovy Bob by Harriet Vyner

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Robert Fraser, better known to some as "Groovy Bob", was immortalized in Richard Hamilton's 1967 picture "Swinging London", handcuffed to Mick Jagger. This unconventional biography details the riotous life of the man that Paul McCartney said "personifies the Sixties as I remember them".

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Groovy Bob by Harriet Vyner

Robert Fraser - taste-maker, hedonist, lousy businessman, promiscuous homosexual - was the celebrated art-dealer responsible for introducing the London art world to Peter Blake, Jim Dine, Richard Hamilton, Bridget Riley and Andy Warncl among others. In this exceptional biography, Harriet Vyner recreates not only an extraordinary, seminal figure but also an exciting and colourful era - Sixties London. Told through the voices of those who knew Fraser best - Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Kenneth Anger, Dennis Hopper and Vyner herself - Groovy Bob was acclaimed on first publication as a brilliant biography and portrait of the most exhilarating period in British social history.
'More than any other figure I can think of, Robert Fraser personifies the Sixties as I remember them' Paul McCartney
Harriet Vyner was brought up in London, Yorkshire and Sussex. She knew Robert Fraser from the late 1970s until his death in 1986. She lives in London.
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ISBN 13 9780571205752
ISBN 10 0571205755
Title Groovy Bob
Author Harriet Vyner
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2001-07-09
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.