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Britain's empire has gone. Our manufacturing basic is a darkness of its past home; the Royal Navy has been reduced to a skeleton. In armed forces, diplomatic and monetary terms, we no more matter even as once did. And yet there continues to be one area where we can legitimately assert superpower position: our popular culture. It really is extraordinary to feel that one British article writer, J. K. Rowling, has sold more than 400 million catalogs; that Doctor Who is watched in almost every developed country in the world; that James Bond has been the central figure in the longest-running film series ever sold; that The Lord of the Rings is the second best-selling novel ever written (behind only A Story of Two Cities); that the Beatles remain the best-selling musical group of all time; which only Shakespeare and the Bible have sold more catalogs than Agatha Christie. To put it simply, no country on Earth, in accordance with its size, has added more to the modern imagination. This is a e book about the success and the meaning of Britain's modern popular culture, from Bond and the Beatles to heavy metal and Coronation Road, from the Angry TEENAGERS to Harry Potter, from Damien Hirst to The X Factor.
