A Field Guide to Punk

(Hardback)

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A Field Guide to ... delves into musics most influential genres to uncover the innovators and agitators who changed music history forever.

In A Field Guide to Punk, Steve Wide explores a scene that was held together by safety pins and attitude the artists and albums, music labels, fashion, whos who and hangabouts that defined the era. From the octane-fuelled Ramones to the Sex Pistols seminal Never Mind the Bollocks, this book takes you behind the image to look at musics most reactionary and revolutionary moment in history.

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Steve Wide is a DJ and writer who has hosted a long-running British music radio show. He has run many legendary indie and retro club nights and DJd for acts including Primal Scream, Happy Mondays, Johnny Marr, Saint Etienne and The Stone Roses. In his radio career, Steve has interviewed countless artists, from Jarvis Cocker and Noel Gallagher to John Lydon and Bjrk.