A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash
10 best books like A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash (Johnny Green): Cider With Roadies, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic, Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones, Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day, Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash, Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992, The Clash: Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Headon, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World, Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones
| Author | Stuart Maconie |
| ISBN | 0091897459 |
Cider with Roadies is the story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework...
"I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon
Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and its sneering hero was Johnny Rotten.
Seventeen...
| Author | Jim DeRogatis |
| ISBN | 0767905091 |
Let it Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)–the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock ‘n’ roll ever lived harder or wrote better–more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the...
| Author | Dee Dee Ramone |
| ISBN | 1560252529 |
Lobotomy is a lurid and unlikely temperance tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster ride from his crazy childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely methadone-soaked stay at a cheap hotel in Earl's Court and newfound peace on the straight and narrow, Dee Dee...
| Author | Jack Boulware |
| ISBN | 0143113801 |
An oral history of the modern punk-revival's West Coast Birthplace
Outside of New York and London, California's Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world. Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final...
The only internationally successful, million-selling group to emerge from the late seventies London punk scene, the Clash set out to change the world with a potent mix of politics, iconic imagery, and blazing rock ‘n’ roll. It was an agenda mirrored in the Clash’s music, which swiftly evolved...
Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
| Author | Greil Marcus |
| ISBN | 0674445775 |
Was punk just another moment in music history, a flash in time when a group of young rebels exploded in a fury of raw sound, outrageous styles, and in-your-face attitude? Greil Marcus, author of the renowned "Lipstick Traces," delves into the after-life of punk as a much richer phenomenon a form of artistic...
| Author | The Clash |
| ISBN | 1843547880 |
This title presents Strummer, Jones, Simonon & Headon, in their own words for the first time. It is the music book of 2008.From "White Riot" to "Rock The Casbah", The Clash were a band like no other. Part of the original wave of British punk bands to emerge in the 1970s, their skilled musicianship,...
| Author | Clinton Heylin |
| ISBN | 0140179704 |
Clinton Heylin's From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock was a captivating read that, not unlike Patti Smith's autobiographies or Greil Marcus's study of the world of Bob Dylan's Basement Tape sessions with The Band, transported me as I read it to another historical time and...
| Author | Everett True |
| ISBN | 1844494136 |
The death of Joey Ramone in the summer of 2001 and Dee Dee Ramone in June 2002 provided ample evidence of the high regard that his band was held by fans and critics. Once regarded as a joke, their music little more than an adrenaline rush of one minute five second noise, The Ramones have come to be regarded...
