Seven Years of Plenty: A Handbook of Irrefutable Pop Greatness 1991-1998 - Softcover

Thompson, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575066032 ISBN 13: 9780575066038

Publisher: Griffn Skye Co., 1998

Synopsis

From Liam Gallagher's spit to Bjork Gudmundsdottir's polish, from the murky beginnings of Britpop to the grisly end of Kurt Cobain, and from the back of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's minibus to the top of a jungle pirate's Bethnal Green towerblock, Ben Thompson celebrates the whole fractured, glorious, idiosyncratic spectrum of turn-of-the-century pop life.

Whether taking tea and toast with Beth Gibbons of Portishead, or headache tablets in a St John's Ambulance room with Damon and Graham from Blur, Seven Years of Plenty throws off the shackles of cynicism, self-aggrandizement and futile categorization that hobble so many contemporary pop writing to provide as unique and impassioned a survey of music in the nineties as Lester Bangs did for the seventies.

About this title

About the Author:

Ben Thompson started writing about music in 1985, when a teenage infatuation with the anti-Thatcherite northern soul of The Three Johns and the Membranes prompted him to produce a scruffy ten-page fanzine called "The Devil's Music." When some Goths in St Albans bungled the production of the second edition, he forsook guerilla publishing for the mainstream media. Since then he has written for Sounds, NME, New Statesman & Society, the Observer, The Wire, the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, the Face, GQ, Mojo, Midweek, Spin, Request, the TLS, Australian Vogue, the Journal of Oral History and the Saturday Telegraph Magazine. Seven Years of Plenty is his first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Griffn Skye Co.
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0575066032
• ISBN 13: 9780575066038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288