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anyone know of any really good books on soho, london

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looking for stuff about the golden days period - bacon, dylan thomas, the colony rooms and all that stuff. looking for meoirs, oral histories and that kinda stuff. dunno why, i've just become fascinated with this period and would welcome all tips.

― sfxxx, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Memoirs by Julian Ross-McLean (is that his name?)

― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

Julian Maclaren-Ross!

― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0948238305.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

Maybe not the right period, but Andrew Loog Oldham's Stoned has a lot of great stuff about early 60s Soho (all coffee bars, R 'n' B and early Cliff Richard).

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

was this prompted by last night's documentary on bbc4?

Soho Boho
The Story of London's Post War Bohemia

As the capital tried to recover following years of conflict, the dreary landscape of struggle and rationing contained a splash of colour. A group of free thinkers, artists and writers set about changing the face of their professions, and began living a lifestyle that became the norm a decade later in the 1960s. The likes of Francis Bacon, Dylan Thomas and Quentin Crisp set up their spiritual home in Soho. [S]

Part of BBC FOUR's Lost Decade season.

Tue 25 Oct, 21:00-22:00 60mins Stereo Widescreen

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i've read stoned - that period's very much post-bohemia, really. quite a good read tho.

― sfxxx, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

See also Jeffrey Bernard

― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

and i saw that programme last night, very late. funny because i've been thinking about this period a lot lately and then that happened.

― sfxxx, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

My dad claim to have gone drinking with Bacon, got riotously drunk, gone back to his studios, then spent the rest of the night pissing and vomiting onto canvases, which Bacon then sold.

I have no idea if this is true.

Someone I was talking to lately mentioned some book or film about the coach and horses in the 1940s. I'll ask her to remind me about it.

― Chief Egg (alix), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

Soho in the Fifties by Daniel Farson; also his Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon.

These do the job, although I don't like Farson's style & his constant going on about how great & wild he & his mates were tends to put you off them somewhat. They end up sounding like a bunch of pissheads being noisy & boring in pubs.

― bham, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)


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