England's Dreaming

Review It's a work that is not only the definitive account of the times and its subject, but one that has come to define the writer himself. Jon Savage literally wrote the book on punk, and that's some achievement. This is it. -- Johnny Marr This is definitive . . . Savage looks at punk from a sociological perspective as much as musical one . . . he reanimates the Sex Pistols' huge social impact. -- Bob Stanley ― Guardian, Bob Stanley's 10 best music histories The definitive history of the English punk movement . . . you could not ask for a livelier, more impartial study.'a ― New York Times Book Review A monumental survey . . . [has] a good claim to be the definitive work on the subject. ― The Times Monumental . . . A tale of genius and stupidity, poverty and riches, of working-class lads and their sinister, student manager, of Britain and America, drugs and self-destruction and a Big, Bad Blond, the Sex Pistols Story is pure rock'n'roll, right up there with Marilyn Monro and Jon And Yoko. ― London Review of Books A great pop tragedy . . . [Savage] instilled an obsession with the roads not taken. -- Owen Hatherly ― Guardian Scholarship with spunk. ― Rolling Stone The best book about punk rock and pop culture ever. ― NME Easily the best cultural history of the seventies . . . essential reading. ― i-D An exceptional book: dead serious and achingly funny, full of delicate complex emotions about the most brutally simple form of pop music ever created. ― Entertainment Weekly A flawless narrative. ― Esquire An account packed with incisive social analysis . chronicles the lurid yet surprisingly complex rise and fall of Britain's quintessential punk band, the Sex Pistols . . . compelling and intelligent. ― Kirkus With wit and authority . . . Savage pens an entertaining, exhaustive chronological history of punk rock and politics through 1980 . . . the definitive source of early-punk anecdotes. ― PublishersWeekly Product Description WINNER OF THE RALPH J. GLEASON AWARD WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JEREMY DELLER AND SCOTT KING INCLUDES FOREWORD BY JOHNNY MARR Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive history of punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s. 'One of Britain's most trusted cultural historians.' THE FACE A pop-culture classic full of anecdote, insight and exclusive interviews, England's Dreaming 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 definitive history of the English punk movement.' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'Still the strongest history of punk.' GUARDIAN 'The best book about punk rock and pop culture ever.' NME (This book is part of a reissue of Jon Savage's seminal works: England's Dreaming, Teenage and 1966) Book Description Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive history of punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s. Featuring a new introduction by Jeremy Deller and Scott King, with a foreword by Johnny Marr. About the Author Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945. He is the writer of the award-winning film documentaries The Brian Epstein Story (1988) and Joy Division (2007), as well as the feature film Teenage (2013). His compilations include Meridian 1970 (Heavenly/EMI 2005) and Queer Noises: From the Closet to the Charts, 1961-1976 (Trikont 2006).