<p><b>'Smart, analytical and enormously good fun' Stuart Maconie, <i>Mail on Sunday</i><br> 'Ingenious . . . conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades' <i>The Spectator</i><br> 'Strikingly insightful . . . page after page of glorious anecdotes' <i>The i Newspaper</i><br> 'A book to leave you shaken and stirred' <i>Independent</i><br> 'Poignant and entertaining' <i>Observer</i><br> 'If you take popular culture seriously, this is the book for you' Jeremy Deller<br></b><i><br> Dr No</i>, the first Bond film, and 'Love Me Do', the first Beatles record, were released on the same day. Most countries can only dream of creating a phenomenon on this scale; Britain produced two on one windy October afternoon. Told over sixty dramatic years, <i>Love and Let Die</i> is the story of two culture touchstones that continue to define our aspirations and fantasies; of opposing values, visions of Britain and ideas about male identity; and of how a clash between working class liberation and establishment control exploded on the global stage.</p>