London, early 1976. Oxford Street is a sea of long hair and flared jeans; prog rock prevails. But Ron Watts, the 100 Club's "rock night" manager, has witnessed the impromptu and chaotic gigs at High Wycombe College of Art. He invites the Sex Pistols to start a residency in central London, and over the next eighteen months, everything changes. ...
The strange and sinister story of the U.S. government's secret war on John Lennon and Yoko Ono is dramatically told in this book based on recently released documents from the FBIUs own archives.
From the precursors of punk, through the famous Bill Grundy show when punk first hit the nation's consciousness to the modern-day heirs, such as Green Day and Busted, punk has evolved and taken over so many aspects of life that even banks now use punk lettering to appeal to their markets. In this brilliant account of punk, the authors have ...
In between fronting rock's most iconoclastic group, the Sex Pistols, and reemerging in the twenty-first century as a reality TV hero on "I'm A Celebrity," Lydon led Public Image Ltd., who merged disco, funk, and industrial punk to create coruscating soundscapes with catchy tunes-from "Death Disco" and "Flowers of Romance" to "Rise" and "This Is ...
Pete is a freelance journalist who thinks he's got a scoop on the big band of the moment and whose life revolves around the next party and, increasingly, the next line of coke. Set in the fickle Soho music and media world, the novel shows why charlie is always the most popular guy in town.
In fast-moving first person narrative, this is the story of Pete, a freelance music journalist whose life revolves around the next party and, increasingly, the next line of coke. On the verge of a big scoop, he finds his life mirroring the evil he is trying to expose.
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