Dirty Stop Out's Guide to 1970s Coventry - Softcover

Cherrington, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908431415 ISBN 13: 9781908431417

Publisher: ACM Retro, 2017

Synopsis

The Dirty Stop Out's Guide to 1970s Coventry celebrates the city’s vibrant, varied and full-on nightlife of the era. The decade may have an image problem because of industrial strife, strikes and racial tensions but this new book explains how Coventry's music and entertainment scene provided something for everyone, from start to finish, and helped bring people together. In its closing years, the city’s 2 Tone revolution challenged the stereotypes, not just musical ones, and even gave provided a new fashion trend that had 'made in Coventry' stamped all over it; Sta-press trousers called time on flares and vertigo-inducing platforms were replaced by ox-blood Dr Marten boots. Ruth Cherrington’s ‘Dirty Stop Out’s Guide to 1970s Coventry’ traces the development of the area’s music and nightlife from the early days of the legendary Locarno Ballroom where rookie DJ and future music mogul Pete Waterman spun the discs at the matinee disco. It revisits landmark gigs by David Bowie and Queen that shook the Coventry Theatre in its foundations. Even the local colleges got in on the act with musifestivals provided by the ‘Lanch’ and Warwick University. Coventry-born Ruth Cherrington said: “It was a fantastic era to grow up in. The sheer volume and variety of venues totally dwarves the number of today – everything from thriving Working Men’s Clubs to legendary record shops like Jill Hanson’s.” The book includes scores of interviews and rare photos. The decade wasn’t kind to Coventry – the collapse of the car industry dealt a crippling body blow to the city. But the 2 Tone explosion provided a welcome distraction with The Specials and the Selecter providing the soundtrack to a gene

Edition details

• Publisher: ACM Retro
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908431415
• ISBN 13: 9781908431417
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84