TANGIER, from the Romans to the Rolling Stones

300pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Reprint, Tauris Parke, London, (2019) 2024

ISBN: 9780755654512

Guide to Tangier's cultural history, and the many international writers, artists and musicians, including Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Joe Orton, Brian Jones, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, who were inspired by the city.

"Richard Hamilton brings an acute reporter's eye and a savvy historian's sense of context to his first-hand encounters with Tangier. He has a fine sense of the city's complicated political history and complaisant sexual traditions. From the myth of Hercules to the novels of Paul Bowles to the music of Brain Jones and the Rolling Stones, Hamilton has done the essential gumshoe work through the disorienting maze of an enigmatic city and taken the measure, high and low, of Tangier's myth, magic, morality and mystery." Iain Finlaysen, author of Tangier: City of the Dream

"This absorbing portrait of Tangier is refreshingly detailed by the galaxy of famous artists and writers - Henri Matisse, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, Brian Gysin, Francis Bacon, Joe Orton, the Rolling Stones and the stars of screen and society - who flocked to this seedy seaport on the Strait." John Hopkins, author of The Tangier Diaries

Richard Hamilton has worked for the BBC World Service as a broadcast journalist since 1998, including being a correspondent in Morocco, South Africa and Madagascar. While living in Morocco, he co-authored the Time Out Guide to Marrakech.