Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution - Softcover

Colegrave, Stephen; Sullivan, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156025369X ISBN 13: 9781560253693

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001

Synopsis

Re-creating the complete story of the Punk phenomenon—including where it came from and what it turned into—Punk is a massive and visually stunning record of five years that changed the world: 1975-1979. Collecting the testimony of more than 260 artists, record producers, designers, and journalists—including John Cale, Debbie Harry, Joe Strummer, Maureen Tucker, Gerard Malanga, Lou Reed, Johnny Rotten, Danny Fields, Legs McNeil, Bob Gruen, David Byrne, Iggy Pop, Tommy Ramone, William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Cherry Vanilla, and Malcolm McLaren, former manager and ringleader of the Sex Pistols—most published here for the first time, Punk brings to life the profound effect Punk music had on global popular culture. With reverberations in style, fashion, attitude, and philosophy, the birth of Punk music released the greatest shockwaves in the popular culture since The Beatles. Punk tells the story through the words of the people who were closely tied to the mania and through hundreds of contemporaneous color and black-and-white photographs. As Andy Warhol said, "We all knew something was happening. We just felt it." "In 1976 we were the most hated people on the planet – we thought that was great."—Siouxsie

About this title

Book Description

This book gives voice to the punk generation 25 years on...

About the Author

Stephen Colegrave's lifelong obsession with punk began in the Intrepid Fox in Wardour Street, London, in 1976. After receiving a degree in history from London University he embarked on a successful advertising career at Saatchi & Saatchi Prague in the 1980s. Sold out, married and with three children, he returned to Saatchi & Saatchi as European marketing director after a stint as a film producer in the 1990s. Stephen then decided to confront his punk beginnings full on. Consequently, he spent a year interviewing punk contemporaries and swapping stories of 1970s anarchy in Soho bars...

Chris Sullivan's first foray into youth culture was Northern Soul, and he regularly travelled hundreds of miles from his native Wales to enjoy a night out at Wigan Casino. In 1975 he began travelling to the hippest clubs in London, and soon became caught up in the punk explosion. A former style editor for GQ magazine, he has been a freelance writer since 1999, and has contributed to many publications including the Face, Loaded, the Independent and The Times and also makes regular appearances on BBC Choices's Head to Toe programme as a style expert.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156025369X
• ISBN 13: 9781560253693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360