ASIN: B010J8AKPM
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 34
1963 1963 was a pivotal year still immersed in all the values and manners of the 1950s, but as Bob Dylan aptly penned “The Times They are a-Changin,” a new collective consciousness was taking hold. The Civil Rights movement was coming to light and protests against the Vietnam War were becoming more urgent and strident. President Kennedy was assassinated in November and the following year the Beatles came to the U.S., which kicked off the British Invasion of the American music scene. Against this wavering backdrop, Linda Upright is a bored sixteen-year-old junior in high school, struggling with typical teenage issues. Female breasts were on her mind almost as much as on the minds of the teenage boys who surrounded her. She discovers Paul McCartney and develops a painful obsession with him—her first celebrity love. Well, her first love of any kind. Stuck at home with a mother also ...
