Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945. He is the writer of the award winning film documentaries The Brian Epstein Story (1998) and Joy Division (2007) as well as the feature film of Teenage (2014). His latest book is 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded.

Max Porter is a senior editor at Granta. His first book Grief is the Thing With Feathers has been Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2015 and Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2015.