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Paul Marko (Author)

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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Punk 77 Books (15 Oct 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0955658306
ISBN-13: 978-0955658303
Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 3 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 766,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"30 years ago on January 1st 1977, the Roxy Club in London s Covent Garden opened with a gig by the Clash and Chelsea. In April 1978 the doors were shut for the last time."

The nostalgia industry has sold us a view of Punk dominated by the Sex Pistols, Clash, Sid Vicious and the usual suspects. The Roxy London WC2 redresses this imbalance by drawing together a history of that infamous Punk club. It argues that without the Roxy Club giving Punk a space where bands and fans alike could gather and develop a scene it may never have turned out the way it did.

A club that in its short life span was frequented by all the major faces on the scene. A club that featured nearly every major and minor Punk act of the time including the Clash, Stranglers, Damned, Slits, Adam & the Ants and even the Police. All with stories and incidents to tell including...

- The band that blagged their first gig and got featured on a top 20 album

- The time Led Zeppelin met the Damned

- Sid s first night of passion with Nancy and wetting the bed

- The day Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69 headlined and cleaned the club so he could buy food

- The band that rented out their van as a passion wagon outside the club

- The band Blitz enjoying card playing in the early morning with gun toting gangsters and Welsh opera singers

- Charlie Harper of the UK Subs forced with 5 other bands to do morning chores as the Farewell to the Roxy tour rolls into the local YMCA

This is the story of a club in the eye of the Punk storm in the words of the bands that played there, the club owners and just as importantly, the club goers who made the place their own. With dozens of never before seen photographs and fliers, the Roxy London WC2 captures vividly the music, fashion, attitude, sex and violence of Punk Rock - all against a backdrop of London clubs, gangsters and criminals!

About the Author

The author Paul Marko runs the Punk Rock website Punk77.co.uk and interviewed some 150 band members and club goers to research the book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential........., 19 Nov 2007

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Essential is a strong word to use when reviewing anything,and in truth there have probably only been perhaps ten books written on the subject of "punk" that can really live up to that superlative.Well make that eleven!This really is a quite superb read that is crammed with previously unreported facts,and unseen photos regarding the early London scene, and this is exactly where Marko's book rises above most of the opposition.......NEW STUFF!!Yes,for me this is right up there with Please Kill Me as one of the VERY best books on the subject.Buy it now!

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5.0 out of 5 stars GET IT, READ AND ENJOY, 17 Jan 2008

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An excellent book about The Roxy giving a good insight as to what it was like.
Well researched with plenty of new comments and stories, never aired before, unlike a lot of the regurgitated crap previously written about Punk.
A good account of what it was actually like by people who were actually there.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! He's found virtually everyone who was there!, 5 Dec 2007

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Just got it, and it's a 500+page tome with interviews and anecdotes from seemingly everyone who was there! This is the authentic stuff, forget about the theorists and proselytisers - this is really punk as it happened!

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5.0 out of 5 stars GREATEST PUNK BOOK EVER
for once, the REAL story! and finally ground breaking pioneers CHERRY VANILLA and WAYNE COUNTY(who is now JAYNE COUNTY) get their day to shine and the proper credit they've been... Read more

Published on 23 May 2008 by Jimi LaLumia

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
Together with Alex Ogg's "No More Heroes" this is possibly the best book about UK Punk ever written! Buy buy buy.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Missing The Point
Although this weighty volume represents an achievement in terms of microscopic exploration of a short-lived club that was a minor element of the punk scene, such exhaustive... Read more

Published on 17 Dec 2007 by Suzy Gutsy

5.0 out of 5 stars An essential read.
I'd heard a lot about this book prior to it's release, and could not wait for its arrival. I never experienced what life was like at the Roxy but after reading Pauls wonderful... Read more

Published on 7 Nov 2007 by CP

5.0 out of 5 stars A REAL PEACH AMONGST SO MANY ROTTEN APPLES
SO MANY BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THE PUNK ERA(MOSTLY BY THOSE WHO WERE NOT THERE) THIS ONE STANDS OUT AS A WARTS AND ALL ACCOUNT. Read more

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Published on 2 Nov 2007 by G. Hammond

5.0 out of 5 stars OK Tom Cats - ...only anorakists are pretty
I have to agree with the review about this being a book without the usual quotes and faces that normally get pulled into books about punk. Read more

Published on 2 Nov 2007 by T. Satchwell

5.0 out of 5 stars A cracking piece of history
Like the author, I was never there and didn't really know too much about the Roxy (other than it lasted 100 nights, another punk myth which was shattered) until I read the book... Read more

Published on 19 Oct 2007 by Blackcountrybaggieboy

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Is Sid Vicious here?"
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Published on 17 Oct 2007 by Stefano Galli

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