Blow Up has become emblematic of mod, Swinging Sixties London.
This Swinging Sixties novel reveals the seedier side of London where the low life meet the high life in the city's dark underbelly.
Everybody knows that the Beatles ' " Lovely Rita " was a real live person - a London traffic warden in the swinging sixties.
Stylish lines, cocktail cabinets, fridges and fast cars... the swinging sixties had arrived !
Blow Up is what the " Swinging sixties " were all about.