Halfway to Paradise: The Birth of British Rock
by: Alwyn Turner/Harry Hammond (photographer)

Hardcover. London, V & A Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages. From the emergence of Bill Haley and his Comets to the meteoric rise of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Halfway to Paradise is an extraord Wer'e allowed see near legendary performers still at the height of their powers like Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Little Richard from the State, and Lonnie Donnegan, Marty Wilde, Billy Fury, and Petula Clark of England. This pictures, posed or candid, are well done and open us to a world of music from the golden age of British rock.