‘Captures that hinge moment when everything changed from grey to colour

Marianne Faithfull

The intoxicating buzz of the sixties: Fashion, theatre, film, and above all the great pop music, pulsing through the Soho clubs.
Chelsea coffee bars, Carnaby Street boutiques and decadent Country house-weekends.
In his Diary of a Teddy Boy : A Memoir of the Long Sixties, Mim Scala leads us on a hedonistic and richly humorous adventure down the years. From ice cream salesman to Gambler, agent, record producer and Hippie traveller, he goes where ever the action is. He rides the rollercoaster of flickering fame and fortune with the rock stars, gangsters artists and icons. He witnesses the death of the era of Swinging London and journeys into it’s afterlife on the hippie trail of Sri Lanka and Morocco.

Quintessentially of its time and ours, Mim Scala’s memoir conveys like few others what it was like to experience and propel, the most pivotal decade of the twentieth century‘Mim is one of the great raconteurs’

John Hurt

‘There are shades of Hunter S. Thompson in Scala’s helter skelter journey.... and hints of Kerouac in it’s wide-eyed abandon.... Scala is utterly irreverent in his treatment of the pillars of 1960’s London - Wealth, sex, drugs, and rock and roll’

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