| Generation X | |
| Author: | Jane Deverson and Charles Hamblett |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Publisher: | Anthony Gibbs & Phillips Ltd. |
| Language: | English |
| Release Date: | 1964 |
| Pages: | 192 pp. |
| Oclc: | 828705 |
| Isbn: | B0000CMEFU (Tandem paperback) --> |
Generation X is a 1964 192-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.[2] The interviews detailed a culture of promiscuous and anti-establishment youth, and was seen as inappropriate for the magazine.[3]
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.[4]