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A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties
A Day in the Life One Family the Beautiful People and the End of the Sixties Author:Robert Greenfield From the author of Exile on Main St. comes A Day in the Life, the story of an ideal marriage between two young, rich, and extraordinarily beautiful members of the English upper class. Their union eventually degenerated into a hellish nightmare of drugs, decadence, madness, and death as the psychedelic dreams of the sixties gave way... more » to the harsh realities of the seventies, and as the international jet set collided head-on with the counterculture.The supporting cast of characters includes Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg; Mick and Bianca Jagger; Eric Clapton and Alice Ormsby-Gore; George Harrison and the Beatles; actresses Fiona Lewis, Sally Field, and Charlotte Rampling; film directors John Frankenheimer and Lucchino Visconti; LSD guru Timothy Leary and Joanna Harcourt-Smith; and many others.A Day in the Life is also the stirring account of how the couple?s two sons?one of whom is actor Jake Weber, currently co-starring with Patricia Arquette on NBC?s Medium?somehow managed to survive a childhood that would have destroyed those of lesser spirit.« less