Two Volumes on the English Punk Movement: England's Dreaming & Dreaming Tapes


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England's Dreaming Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock and Beyond
by Jon Savage  PAPERBACK


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The England's Dreaming Tapes Interviews, Outtakes and Extras - The Essential Companion to "England's Dreaming", the Seminal History of Punk by Jon Savage PAPERBACK


ENGLAND'S DREAMING (602 pages) 


England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States. Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the Pistols through layers of rich detail, exclusive interviews, and rare photographs. This fully revised and updated edition of the book covers the legacy of punk twenty-five years later and provides an account of the Pistols' 1996 reunion as well as a freshly updated discography and a completely new introduction. 


The definitive history of the English punk movement
-The New York Times Book review 


AMAZON REVIEW
In England's Dreaming, I finally found the book that told me everything I ever wanted to know about the punk movement but was afraid to ask. The perfect compliment to the biography of Clash lead singer Joe Strummer, Jon Savage's tome (yes, it is a little bit of a doorstop, but a worthwhile doorstop) focuses more on The Sex Pistols than anything else, but within the wider lens of the punk movement as a whole. And what surprised me more than anything? Punk wasn't about music right at first, it was about fashion. And more specifically, punk impresario (the late, great) Malcolm McLaren's drive to sell clothes that shocked, rocked and would shake the world. Operating from a shop called (strangely enough) Sex he pushed his fashion outwards into Britain and from there the world- and crafted punk and more specifically The Sex Pistols as a vehicle to help him hock his fashion wares. 


ENGLAND'S DREAMING TAPES (744 PAGES)


Jon Savage's 1991 book, England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond, was hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "the definitive history of the English punk movement." Widely imitated but never equaled, it remains that rare work of music history that appeals to music fans, critics, and scholars alike. In researching England's Dreaming, Savage conducted hundreds of hours of interviews of which only a fraction made it into the finished book. Now, in The England's Dreaming Tapes, Savage makes available for the first time the full, uncut, sensational story behind the cultural moment that was punk.


Here is the story of a generation that changed the world in just a few months in 1976, as told by the scene's major figures: all four original Sex Pistols as well as Joe Strummer, Chrissie Hynde, Jordan, Siouxsie Sioux, Viv Albertine, Adam Ant, Lee Black Childers, Howard Devoto, Pete Shelley, Syl Sylvain, Debbie Wilson, Tony Wilson, Jah Wobble, and many others. Together, they offer a sweeping history of the late 1960s and the 1970s-not just the era's music, but also its radical politics, social issues, fashion, and culture.

AMAZON REVIEW
An incredible insight, written and compiled when Punk was out of vogue and many were trying to distance them selves from it. Essential.
- Banksy 

Full Disclosure: Your careless auction administrator spilled coffe on the edges of these two books.  Otherwise, like new and fully readable.

This book is part of a library donation by Dan Connolly.  All books are used but in almost new condition.

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