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Ideal for readers interested in music history, punk culture, and 1970s British arts and society.
A reissue of Jon Savage's landmark book on punk culture.
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 new introduction by Jeremy Deller and Scott King, with a foreword by Johnny Marr.
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Jon Savage's England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s. Full of anecdote, insight, and exclusive interviews, it 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.
This new edition will be published alongside reissues of Savage classics Teenage and 1966.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780571368549
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 June 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main - Re-issue
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 50.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 220.0mm
Weight: 680g
Pages: 688
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About the Author
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 previous book was the top ten bestselling This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History.
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