England's Dreaming

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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 anecdote, 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.

Author Bio

Author of the award-winning social history of the late '70s, England's Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, The Kinks: the Official Biography and co-editor of the fabulous Faber Book of Pop. In 1997, Jon wrote the BAFTA award-winning BBC2 Arena documentary on Brian Epstein. A key punk-era writer for Sounds, and later forThe Face, The Observer, The Guardian, The Village Voice and Mojo, he writes and lives on the island of Anglesey, Wales, where he is working on a history of 20th Century Youth Culture.