In Search of Tito’s Punks
A look at the vibrant punk scene that exploded in Yugoslavia during Marshal Josip Broz Tito’s final years. In 1981, Demob, a young multiracial punk rock band from a stagnating provincial English city, recorded “No Room For You,” a song that sold a few thousand copies before fading into history. The bass player was eighteen-year-old Barry Phillips, and in 2011,...HardbackSold OutIn Search of Tito’s Punks
The book traces the story of how a song recorded in 1981 by a young punk rock band from a cultural backwater on the English-Welsh border, and released on a tiny independent record label, became famous in a Yugoslavia formed in the image of Marshall Tito. Why was it 30 years before the members of the band found out? How...PaperbackSold Out