A firsthand record of punk’s pivotal 1977
A firsthand record of punk’s pivotal 1977
Barry Cain’s account centers on 1977 through the perspective of a journalist granted unusually close access to the bands at the heart of punk’s emergence. It combines contemporaneous eyewitness reporting with later reflections from John Lydon, Hugh Cornwell, and Rat Scabies on their words and actions during that year. Framed as a corrective to simplified histories, the book examines punk as a lived scene as well as a musical movement, preserving the immediacy of events alongside retrospective commentary from key participants.
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An eyewitness account of 1977 by one of the only journalists allowed full access to the bands. This is the true story of punk - how it really felt and what happened - and how John Lydon, Hugh Cornwell, and Rat Scabies feel now about what they said and did back then.
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