"There's elements of country, early-'90s shoegazer, and swinging London Pink Floyd, " lead vocalist Scott Vitt says.

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He had a string of hits during the swinging London days of the '60s, and his story began when he left school in his native Glasgow, Scotland, to bum across Europe with a friend.

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"There was this feeling that Britain rocked again - but that was the problem, it became so quickly caricatured with terms like Britpop and Swinging London and Cool Britannia that it ended very quickly, " Dower said.

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Based on a short memoir by the talented, acid-tongued journalist Lynn Barber (first published in Granta magazine), the movie is set in 1962, when England was gradually emerging from postwar austerities and the fabled antics of swinging London were just getting under way.

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Among my favourite parts of the book is Mr Mehta's early life in London in the swinging sixties as a callow young man, who arrives from India with a few shillings and bags of Indian tea.

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