Absolute Beginners
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Absolute Beginners is a novel by Colin MacInnes, set in the late 1950s in London.3 The novel describes the rise of a bohemian, style-conscious youth culture, a culture which would become the Mod movement, and the fomenting racial tensions of the time, through the adventures of a young Vespa-riding freelance photographer.
This novel was made into the 1986 UK musical film Absolute Beginners, directed by Julien Temple and featuring Patsy Kensit and a performance by David Bowie.1 The song "Absolute Beginners" was composed by David Bowie for this film and appears on the movie soundtrack and on versions of Best of Bowie albums.2
References
Note 1: Absolute Beginners (1986) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090585/), an entry in the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/). Retrieved 2005-03-02. Note 2: Absolute Beginners by David Bowie (http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=3649), an entry on the SongFacts site (http://www.songfacts.com/default.lasso). Retrieved 2005-03-02 Note 3: MacInnes, Colin (2001). Absolute Beginners. Allison & Busby. ISBN 0749005408.
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