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Totally Wired

Postpunk Interviews and Overviews
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Totally Wired presents 32 interviews with pioneering post-punk musicians and influential figures from record labels, management, production, DJing, and journalism. Featuring voices such as Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, and John Peel, the book reveals the vibrant, complex personalities behind the scene. Alongside these conversations, author Simon Reynolds provides insightful reflections on key icons like John Lydon and Ian Curtis and explores significant movements from glam rock to New Romantics.
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This book is ideal for fans of post-punk music, cultural historians, and readers interested in music journalism and the evolution of British alternative music scenes.

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From the author of the bestselling post-punk history Rip It Up and Start Again comes a formidable companion book of conversations.

From Simon Reynolds, the author of the bestselling post-punk history Rip It Up and Start Again, comes Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews, a formidable companion book of conversations.


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Totally Wired features 32 interviews with the post-punk era's most innovative musicians and colourful personalities. From Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, Edwyn Collins, it also includes conversations with the most influential of label bosses, managers, record producers, DJs and journalists—such as John Peel and Paul Morley.

Crackling with argument and anecdote, these conversations bring a rich human dimension to post-punk's exceptional characters, from their earliest days to their glorious and sometimes disastrous musical adventures. Along with the interviews, we get 'overviews': further reflections by Simon Reynolds on key icons and crucial scenes, including John Lydon and Public Image Ltd, Ian Curtis and Joy Division, and the lineage of glam grotesquerie running from Siouxsie and the Banshees to the New Romantics to Leigh Bowery.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571235490

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 February 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 35.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 570g

Pages: 464

About the Author

Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture; Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock; The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll; Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 and most recently, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock.

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