Book description
Sex Pistols and Punk recounts the turbulent months at the beginning
of the British punk revolution in 1976. Starting as four disparate
teenagers thrown together by Svengali Malcom McLaren to sell trousers,
the Sex Pistols quickly became both prism and mirror for a disaffected
youth eager to smash the old guard and make the world in their own,
Warholian image. From dodgy backroom gigs to major-label overtures,
Sex Pistols and Punk charts the dramatic rise of one of Britain's most
influential and controversial bands.
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
sleevenotes 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 1982-1987 (Domino, 2008).
