From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World
6 best books like From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World (Clinton Heylin): England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond, 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, We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, Role Models
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
| Author | Jon Savage |
| ISBN | 0312288220 |
England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States. Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the Pistols through layers of rich detail, exclusive...
"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 | Brendan Mullen |
| ISBN | 0609807749 |
Taking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood—pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan—We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk scene, straight from the mouths of the scenesters, zinesters, groupies, filmmakers, and...
| Author | John Waters |
| ISBN | 0374251479 |
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich--and happily horrify readers everywhere.
Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities--some famous, some unknown,...
