Vibrant and volatile, the punk scene left an extraordinary legacy of music and cultural change, and this work talks to those who cultivated the movement, weaving together their accounts to create a raw and unprecedented oral history of punk in the United Kingdom. From the Clash,…
A chronicle of the punk movement through interviews with such people as Iggy Pop, Joey Ramone, and Debbie Harry.
A chronicle of the punk movement through interviews with such people as Iggy Pop, Joey Ramone, and Debbie Harry.
"With his critically acclaimed Rip It Up and Start Again, renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds applied a unique understanding to an entire generation of musicians working in the wake of punk rock. Spawning artists as singular as Talking Heads, Joy Division, The Specials, Sio…
From 1960s roots, through to the arrival of 'new wave', with a cast including Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Blondie, the Ramones, Talking Heads, as well as the Velvet Underground and the Voidoids, this text presents an account of an extraordinarily diverse musical scene.
Through exclusive interviews with protagonists like Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, John Waters, and many more, alongside a treasure trove of never-before-seen photographs and reprinted zines, Queercore traces the history of a scene originally ''fabricated'' in the bedrooms and coffe…
