On the Cusp

The ‘real’ Sixties began on 5 October 1962. On that remarkable Friday, the Beatles hit the world with their first single, ‘Love Me Do’, and the first James Bond film, ‘Dr No,’ had its world premiere in London: two icons of the future heralding a social and cultural revolution. ‘On the Cusp,’ continuing David Kynaston’s groundbreaking history of post-war Britain ‘Tales of a New Jerusalem’, is about Britain during the summer and early autumn of 1962, in the charged months leading up to that plates-shifting moment.