England's dreaming : Sex Pistol and punk rock / Jon Savage.

By:

Savage, Jon

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Faber And Faber, 1992, c1991.Description: 610 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.), facsims. (some col.) ; 23 cmISBN:

0571167918 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

781.66092 20
781.66092241 20

Summary: PUNK, NEW WAVE & INDIE. Jon Savage's Ralph Gleason Award-winning 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. The critical reputation of England's Dreaming has grown over the past decade and a half, and now it joins the Faber Modern Classics list. This updated edition includes an introduction focusing on the legacy of punk twenty-five years on, an account of the Sex Pistols 1996 reunion, and a comprehensively updated discography.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Open Collection	FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	Open Collection	FCUC Library	782.421660922 SAV 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00007553

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Originally published: 1991.

PUNK, NEW WAVE & INDIE. Jon Savage's Ralph Gleason Award-winning 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. The critical reputation of England's Dreaming has grown over the past decade and a half, and now it joins the Faber Modern Classics list. This updated edition includes an introduction focusing on the legacy of punk twenty-five years on, an account of the Sex Pistols 1996 reunion, and a comprehensively updated discography.