Punk: The Illustrated History of a Music Revolution

Boot, Adrian and Salewicz, Chris

ISBN 10: 0140260986 / ISBN 13: 9780140260984

Published by Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1995

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159 page look-back at the SEVENTIES punk movement in POP music. Lots of photographs - noteably Vivienne Westwood, Joe Strummer, Debbie Harry, Lee Brilleaux,Wayne County, Paul Cook, and Paul Simonon. Do you remember the following groups: Tear Gas, The Clash, The Slits,Kursaal Flyers, Stiff, and The Rich Kids ?? Some of the musical landmarks that are recalled : Ca Plane Pour Moi, Marquee Moon, One Chord Wonders, and Come into the Open. Famous venues include: 2-Tone, 100 Club, and the Roundhouse. Cond : Paper wrapper is bright yellow with red stencilled lettering. Front cover graphic is a b/w photo of the Sex Pistols. Very light wear at two corners, spine fine, colours BRIGHT, binding tight. No names, marks, tears, folds, bumps, nor stains. One back cover crease. Very neat nostalgia trip !! Quote (p. 65) : " . where the sound of reggae sailing out of windows was the norm. His comment is also a good example of the almost complete lack of solidarity between punk acts, all of whom seemed only too eager to slag off their rivals endlessly. What is far more extraordinary is that Lydon was still persisting with this level of self-delusion sixteen years later. " Size: 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Punk: The Illustrated History of a Music Revolution
• Publisher: Penguin, Harmondsworth
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140260986
• ISBN 13: 9780140260984
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Colour and B/W Photographs
• Edition: First Thus.
• Condition: Very Good ++
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

A visual history of the 1970s musical trend that remains popular today collects previously unpublished photographs and traces the rise of punk as both music and a worldwide sociocultural movement

Reviews

Judging from the recent spate of punk-rock histories and memoirs--not to mention the Sex Pistols' reunion tour last summer--there is enduring interest in the 1970s punk scene. This punk tome is more evocative than most, thanks to Boot's 200 period photos and music journalist Salewicz's informed and engaging commentary. Although it begins with a profile of the U.S. punk precursors, the New York Dolls, and ends with a nod to today's nouveau-punk bands (e.g., Green Day), the book concentrates on the British scene, in particular the Pistols and their master-manipulator manager, Malcolm McLaren, as well as the Clash. Although the volume's "cutting edge" design (varicolored pages, differing column widths of type, etc.) accentuates the innate edginess of the subject, it doesn't always enhance readability or show off the photos--a genuine treasure-trove--to best advantage. With the help of a couple of decades' distance, those pictures reveal punk's underlying artifice and make it seem more fun and even more innocent than, as it seemed then, angry. Gordon Flagg