Product Description
Jon Savage is a bestselling author, broadcaster and journalist. His books include England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945 and 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded. He has written sleevenotes for Wire, St. Etienne and the Pet Shop Boys, among others, and his compilations include: Meridian 1970 (Heavenly/EMI 2005); Queer Noises: From the Closest to the Charts 1961 - 1976 (Trikont 2006); and Dreams Come True: Classic Electro 1982-87 (Domino 2008). His most recent book is the top ten bestselling This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History.Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive history of punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s. Featuring a foreword by Johnny Marr.It's a work that is not only the definitive account of the times and its subject, but one that has come to define the writer himself. Jon Savage literally wrote the book on punk, and that's some achievement. This is it.This is definitive . . . Savage looks at punk from a sociological perspective as much as musical one . . . he reanimates the Sex Pistols' huge social impact.The definitive history of the English punk movement . . . you could not ask for a livelier, more impartial study.'aA monumental survey . . . [has] a good claim to be the definitive work on the subject.WINNER OF THE RALPH J. GLEASON AWARD
INCLUDES FOREWORD BY JOHNNY MARR
Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive history of punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s.
A pop-culture classic full of anecdote, insight and exclusive interviews, England's Dreaming tells the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid decline of the last great rock 'n' roll band and the cultural moment they came to define.
'The definitive history of the English punk movement.'
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'Still the strongest history of punk.'
GUARDIAN
'The best book about punk rock and pop culture ever.'
NME
INCLUDES FOREWORD BY JOHNNY MARR
Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive history of punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s.
A pop-culture classic full of anecdote, insight and exclusive interviews, England's Dreaming tells the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid decline of the last great rock 'n' roll band and the cultural moment they came to define.
'The definitive history of the English punk movement.'
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'Still the strongest history of punk.'
GUARDIAN
'The best book about punk rock and pop culture ever.'
NME
Product Details
| Title: | England's Dreaming |
|---|---|
| Author: | Jon Savage |
| SKU: | BK0467690 |
| EAN: | 9780571326280 |
About Author
Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945. He is the writer of the award-winning film documentaries The Brian Epstein Story (1988) and Joy Division (2007), as well as the feature film Teenage (2013). His compilations include Meridian 1970 (Heavenly/EMI 2005) and Queer Noises: From the Closet to the Charts, 1961-1976 (Trikont 2006).