Portobello Road : lives of a neighbourhood /
Mash, Julian,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE INTO THE MARKET -- Out of the Barrow and into the Ring -- Vinyl Habit: Minus Zero and the Life and Death of the Record Shop -- The Travel Bookshop 1979--2011 -- Homeless Bones: Antiques -- Tomorrow's You: The Health Food Revolutionaries -- Sunset Boulevard and the Birth of Vintage Fashion -- From Rogue to Vogue: Paul Breuer Vintage Clothes -- An Appointment with the Dentist -- pt. TWO LORD, DON'T STOP THE CARNIVAL -- There's a Riot Going On: 1958 and the Notting Hill Race Riots -- Pageant, Fireworks, Music, Plays and Poetry: The London Free School and the 1966 Carnival -- Mas in the Ghetto: Carnival 1973 -- Gaz's Rockin' Blues -- The Mangrove Steelband -- Fox Friends: The Maverick Masquerade Band -- pt. THREE IN LOVE WITH ROCK 'N' ROLL -- Pink Floyd Go into Interstellar Overdrive -- Hawkwind: The House Band -- 1976: Rough Trade and the Birth of Punk -- Killing Joke: The Adventures of Youth -- Under the Westway: Damon Albarn --
Contents note continued: The Rise of XL Recordings -- pt. FOUR BRICKS AND MORTAR -- A Legal Matter: Goodwin & Knipe -- In Search of a Furnished Room -- Performance and Powis Square -- Further Limits: Duncan Fallowell -- Heathcote Williams and the Ruff, Tuff, Cream Puff Squatting Agency -- Basement Bedlam and the Rise of the Super Rich -- Behind the Blue Door with Richard Curtis.