The England's Dreaming Tapes by Jon Savage

The England's Dreaming Tapes by Jon Savage

The essential companion to England's Dreaming, the seminal history of punk.

"The England’s Dreaming Tapes takes you back to the genesis, to the very beginning of the cult, back to a time when Poly Styrene was a hippy, when Steve Diggle and John Lydon had long hair, when Siouxsie Sioux was a disco kidThis book holds the provenance of punk, and identifies, through the words of the 59 people Savage interviews, its very essence. . . .Everyone is here—all the bands, all the protagonists, all the club-runners, all journalists, shopkeepers, photographers, and the rest—and it is an absolute joy." —Dylan Jones, GQ (UK)

"A journalist on a British music weekly at the time of punk, Savage succeeded in assembling a comprehensive cast of interviewees when he was writing England’s Dreaming in the late 1980s, and their unedited voices, presented in this new context, bring the epoch alive with the force of oral history." —Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, The Financial TImes

"The England’s Dreaming Tapes is undoubtedly the best interview-based book on British punk published thus far. It’s an indispensable documentary resource that offers panoramic insight into UK punk’s most innovative and influential stage; it manages to immerse the reader in the visceral rush and the sheer creative energy of the period at the same time as it provides measured, incisive commentary on that period." —Wilson Neate, Blurt

Jon Savage is a writer and broadcaster. His books include England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond and Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture and among the documentaries he has written are the award-winning The Brian Epstein Story and Joy Division. He lives in North Wales.

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ISBN 13	9780816672929
ISBN 10	081667292X
Title	The England's Dreaming Tapes
Author	Jon Savage
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press
Year published	2010-08-04
Number of pages	752
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