The Clash: Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Headon
8 best books like The Clash: Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Headon (The Clash): Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, I Am America (And So Can You!), England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer, A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash, Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash, Britpop!: Cool Britannia And The Spectacular Demise Of English Rock
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
| Author | David Remnick |
| ISBN | 0679751254 |
If you are a hard line communist apparatchik about to launch a coup d’état against those who libel World Socialism and defame the noble memory of Stalin then here is some advice: plan your coup well and don’t confuse planning with plotting.
This is plotting:
the traitor Yeltsin...
I Am America (And So Can You!)
| Author | Stephen Colbert |
| ISBN | 0446580503 |
Congratulations--just by opening the cover of this book you became 25% more patriotic.
From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23½ hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions...
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...
The Clash was--and still is--one of the most important groups of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Indebted to rockabilly, reggae, Memphis soul, cowboy justice, and '60s protest, the overtly political band railed against war, racism, and a dead-end economy, and in the process imparted a conscience...
| Author | Johnny Green |
| ISBN | 0571199577 |
Johnny Green was a footloose slacker who loved punk rock, stumbled into being a roadie for the Sex Pistols, then tripped again into a job pushing sound equipment for the Clash and driving their beat-up van to performances in the mean industrial towns of England. Disaffected youth anointed the Clash...
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...
Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics, and fleeting political optimism, this was "Cool Britannia." Records sold in the millions, a new...
