the strangest and most beautiful fake that British youth culture ever made - that’s so true. And maybe true authenticity is always fake. Pursuing authenticity takes you to Puritanism. Look at the US folk revival that Dylan hi-jacked. All that serious wholesomeness. They called him a sell out when he was inventing folk rock. Maybe the truth is that everything authentic, original and new owes a debt to the past, has been inspired by something old.