| Generation X | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Jane Deverson and Charles Hamblett |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd |
| Publication date | 1965 |
| ISBN | B0000CMEFU (Tandem paperback) |
Generation X is a 1965 165-page book on popular youth culture by British journalists, Jane Deverson and Charles Hamblett.[1] It contains interviews with teenagers who were part of the Mod subculture. It began as a series of interviews in a 1964 study of British youth, commissioned by British lifestyle magazine Woman's Own where Deverson worked. The interviews detailed a culture of promiscuous and anti-establishment youth, and was seen as inappropriate for the magazine.[2]
Generation X, a punk rock band that English musician Billy Idol formed in 1976, was named after the book—a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.[3]