- Hardcover: 399 pages
- Publisher: Cassell Illustrated (15 Oct 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0304359874
- ISBN-13: 978-0304359875
- Product Dimensions: 32 x 30 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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- #80 in Books > Music, Stage & Screen > Music > Styles > Rock & Pop > Styles > Punk
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The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones, The Heartbreakers, Siouxsie and the Banshees all have had a chance to speak in this book which gives voice to the punk generation. 25 years on, it remembers the mad, frenzied and often incoherent world of 1975-79. Variously described as middle class, working class, political, social, sexual, artistic, superficial, perverted, puerile and heroic, punk has always inspired controversy.
About the Author
Stephen Colegrove is Marketing Director of Saatchi & Saatchi and has worked as an independent film producer. He was previously lead singer for seminal punk band, The Lurkers. He lives in London. Simon Morgan is a London based rock journalist.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book was bought as a gift for me. My initial thumb through made me think that it looked tawdry and slight. No real text - just a lot of bundled together quotes, albeit with some nice pics. Then I started reading it and found to my surprise that it was an enjoyable read as I raced through it. It gave real insight into the original punk being a combination of trendy London scenesters (stand up Philip Salon) who abandoned it as soon as it became mainstream and genuine political and social unrest. Punk changed my life at the time and its influence can be seen around us to this day. This book is recommended if only for the story about Reginald Bosanquet the newsreader (anyone under 35 ask your Dad) and the prostitute.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Punk is an over-priced, over-designed, wholly black and white book full of previously seen photographs and quotes culled from a bunch of magazine and books already previously published. There are some original quotes in here, but they're few and far between and not strictly relevant . Punk in the UK lasted for about 18 months and then became assimilated into the mainstream and stopped being the inspiration which the marketing men responsible for this poor book claim it to be. If you really want to know what happened, go to the sources the 'editors' of this thing clearly did: Jon Savage's England's Dreaming, Glen Matlock's I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol, the Clash documentary just released on DVD etc...
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The comment above was right. This recollection is 90 percent Pistols, Maclaren, Westwood-- as if the rest were merely accidents, as if punk's true essence was about pharmacological and sexual debauchery. Apparently, its authors were gunning for the shock value of it, hence lots of Rotten and Vicious.
Appreciated the attempts to link the punk aesthetics with the Beat, Dada, Surrealist ancestors, though. As well as the short but seemingly speculative reference to how dub and reggae seeped into the movement. Excellent packaging and design. Good thing I got this one at really ridiculously discounted rate.
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Punk from the Pistols to the Pistols
An heavy read (literaly) and takes the viewpoint singularly from the Sex Pistols/Bromley contingent/New York scene/Art/London fashion and so on angle. Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2009 by zips78
Punk the real story at last
Unlike many of the people who look back on the Punk phenomenon vicariosly I was actually there.For once a book has been written that tells it how it was . Read more
Published on 20 Sep 2002
Grea CD- Have yet to read the book, but will soon
I realize that punk books are completely dominated by the Sex Pistols (I'm a seventeen year old, and brand-new to the entire '76 punk scene, although I LOVE it)yet the CD that was... Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2002 by Primadonna
The McLaren History Of Punk (Again)
Very disappointed with this book.
It's Pistols,McLaren,Pistols,McLaren,Pistols,McLaren,all the way through as usual.
It wasn't like that at the time. Read more
It's Pistols,McLaren,Pistols,McLaren,Pistols,McLaren,all the way through as usual.
It wasn't like that at the time. Read more
Published on 29 Nov 2001
History is bunk
Yet another dull repetition of the McLaren-authorised version of Punk history, this time with more pics than Jon Savage's England's Dreaming. Read more
Published on 22 Nov 2001
One of the better attempts at explaining the unexplainable.
At first I was a little disappointed, starting with the Velvet Underground in New York, (Please Kill Me) anyone? And quotes from that and England's Dreaming. Read more
Published on 19 Nov 2001 by R. Shaikh
PUNK: Brillaint.It reads like a novel of a revolution.
"Time Flies Time Crawls like an Insect, Up and Down the Walls', sang Mr Howard Devoto of seminal art punk outfit Magazine. Read more
Published on 15 Nov 2001
the real thing-
A book to get up the noses of all the politico punks who have never moved on.Big ,glossy and attractive it describes punk as -a music a fashion and an attitude albeit the most... Read more
Published on 14 Nov 2001 by hawescraig@hotmail.com
The definitive book on the subject-brilliant!
The book is the definitive work on punk having been gleaned from over a hundred personal interviews with everyone the likes of Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols ,Jayne County and... Read more
Published on 14 Nov 2001
I loved Punk! - it tells the story in people's own words.
I loved Punk! because it tells the story in people's own words. This means that you get people's real point of view and stories that haven't been heard before and not a... Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2001
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