Sometimes harrowing, often hilarious, PLEASE KILL ME is a history of the birth of punk rock told by many of the people involved. Starting with the Velvet Underground, one of the bands that provided inspiration for the movement, Legs McNeil and co-author Gillian McCain interview members of the New York Dolls and the MC5, as well as Iggy Pop, ...
A former record label owner and radio DJ offers the first history of hardcore, a musical response to the angst of punk and new wave. Photos & illustrations.
?The mid-1970s was England's darkest, dreariest hour. The UK was sliding deeper into unemployment, reeling from strike after strike, power cuts, the three-day work week, and IRA bombs. It was time for a new order and in London's restless streets a handful of snotty young men, feisty females, and first generation Jamaican musicians created the UK's ...
Contents Introduction by Marc Bayard Preface by the author Why Punk: Background comparisons with previous art movements; some defining characteristics of punk. Media Misrepresentations: How television, glossy magazines, and mindless mass media have done their best to defang the beast. Skinheads: Who they are, where they're from and do they have to ...
Part oral history, part autobiography, ROTTEN is John Lydon/Johnny Rotten's memoir of a South London working class childhood that blossomed into full punk rock rebellion, with the aid of a cast of characters who have since taken their place in music history--Malcolm McLaren, Vivienne Westwood, Siouxsie Sioux, Billy Idol, and Chrissie Hynde, to ...
In a uniquely graphic, outsized, full-color design that incorporates more than 200 photographs--many previously unpublished--Punk traces the rise of punk as both a music and a worldwide movement. 175 color photos, 25 b&w photos.
Re-creating the complete story of the Punk phenomenonincluding where it came from and what it turned intoPunk is a massive and visually stunning record of five years that changed the world: 1975-1979. Collecting the testimony of more than 260 artists, record producers, designers, and journalistsincluding John Cale, Debbie Harry, Joe Strummer, ...
The characteristically unconventional West Coast punk rock explosion, which occurred around the same time as that of New York, gets its own chronicle with Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen's WE GOT THE NEUTRON BOMB, a gritty oral history of the rise of California punk. Unsurprisingly, many of the same cast of characters who populate the annals of New ...
"Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo" tells the story of a cultural moment that's happening right now-the nexus point where teen culture, music, and the web converge to create something new.While shallow celebrities dominate the headlines, pundits bemoan the death of the music industry, and the government decries teenagers for their ...
Leo Caraway, president of the Young Republicans Club and a future Harvard student, has his entire future planned. But Leo is soon thrown for a loop when he discovers that the lead singer of punk rock's most destructive band is his biological father.
This is a book about movements in culture that in conventional terms, in terms of power, rulership, recognized events, and certified masterpieces, barely left a trace. Yet in terms of how people actually live, how they walk and talk, left traces that linger in the minds and voices of countless people all over the world. 80 halftones.
Thirty years ago, a bunch of angst-ridden British kids kicked off the AnarchyTour in the UK and unwittingly started a revolution. From the Sex Pistols andThe Clash to green Day, this fully illustrated chronicle from "MOJO" magazineserves up punk in all its glory.
It has been over twenty-five years since punk rock transformed the landscape of music and popular culture, but the significance of the era continues to endure. Whether you take your Year Zero from The Stooges in 1969 or the heady bile of The Clash and Sex Pistols, it's impossible to overstate the importance of punk. This book examines the songs ...
British punk rock was always much more than the back-to-basics musical movement of its American counterpart, being driven as much by social imperatives and politics as by purely artistic motives. In ENGLAND'S DREAMING, John Savage's brilliant, analytical study of the music and the forces that created it, he sees punk as a reaction against both the ...
Predating the Undertones by almost a year, Stiff Little Fingers were the most successful of the first generation of Belfast bands to take the 1976 advent of the Sex Pistols, the Damned, and the Clash as a clarion call for their own mini-revolution. As their founder, Jake Burns, relates in this entertaining book-length interview with longtime band ...
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. ...
Gary Valentine, the bassist for punk-rock band Blondie from their inception in 1975 until his acrimonious departure two years later, recounts his story against a prototypically seedy 1970s New York background in NEW YORK ROCKER, a memoir of his misspent youth and its aftermath. The evocatively rendered New York punk rock scene of Valentine's late ...
This lively and entertaining revisionist history of rock music after 1970 reconsiders the roles of two genres, heavy metal and punk. Instead of considering metal and punk as aesthetically opposed to each other, Steve Waksman breaks new ground by showing that a profound connection exists between them. Metal and punk enjoyed a charged, intimate ...
Celebrating friendships that have been bound together by music since 1979, Horgan's largely unpublished images were taken as friend and participant on the music scene, rather than as a journalist, and are both an exceptional contribution to the history of punk and a true reflection of punk values.
In this collection of Greil Marcus's most incisive writing on punk rock and the punk-influenced pop music in its wake, America's preeminent pop music and cultural critic presents a chronicle of the punk years, portraits of key bands, and revealing analysis of their music.
By the time he was fifteen, Horace was the proud owner of a Rosetti Bass 8 guitar. He couldn't play it, or even tune it, but he could stand in front of his bedroom mirror in sleepy Kettering and imagine himself on stage, a denim-clad long-haired rock god playing to an adoring crowd. Ten years later and the dream came true - kind of. As bass player ...
"England's Dreaming" is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the Pistols through layers of rich detail, exclusive interviews, and rare photographs. This fully ...
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