Book description
Jon Savage's Ralph Gleason Award-winning England's Dreaming is the
ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their
time: the late 1970s. Full of anedcote, insight, and exclusive
interviews, it 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 critical reputation of England's
Dreaming has grown over the past decade and a half. This updated
edition includes an introduction focusing on the legacy of punk
twenty-five years on, an account of the Sex Pistols 1996 reunion, and
a comprehensively updated discography.
Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex pistols and
Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875 - 1945. He has
written sleevesnotes for Wire, St. Etienne and the Pet Shop Boys,
among others, and his compilations include: Meridian 1970
(Heavenly/EMI 2005); Queer Noises: From the Closest to the Charts 1961
- 1976 (Trikont 2006); and Dreams Come True: Classic Electro 1982-87
(Domino 2008).
