''Generation X'' is a 1964 192-page book on popular youth culture by British journalists Jane Deverson and Charles Hamblett. It contains interviews with teenagers who were part of the

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subculture. It began as a series of interviews in a 1964 study of British youth, commissioned by British lifestyle magazine ''

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'' where Deverson worked. The interviews detailed a culture of promiscuous and anti-establishment youth, and was seen as inappropriate for the magazine.

Cultural influences

Generation X Generation X (or Gen X for short) is the Western world, Western demographic Cohort (statistics), cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the millennials. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1960s as starting birth years a ...

, a punk rock band that English musician

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formed in 1976, was named after the book—a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.Generation X - A Punk History with Pictures
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The original Generation X
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