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Being Bad

Malcolm McLaren on Jubilee day 1977

Embed from Getty Images A short extract from the opening chapter of John Scanlan, Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine… Read More »

Bowie Bonds

Bowie Bonds

In the early 1990s David Bowie began to detach himself from the weight of his own musical legacy, and in… Read More »

Song Noir

Song Noir

I really became a character in my own story. I’d go out at night, get drunk, fall asleep underneath a… Read More »

NY Day, 1977

NY Day, 1977

A film by Julien Temple, broadcast on BBC Four on January 1st, 40 years after the event. An interesting snapshot… Read More »

A hell of a haircut

A hell of a haircut

Forty years ago today, on tour with the Clash, Richard Hell. I go into some detail about Malcolm McLaren’s attempt… Read More »

Semi-Detached

Semi-Detached

‘The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached’ by Mark Doyle (expected 2018). Of all the great British rock bands of the 1960s,… Read More »

The Passenger

The Passenger

‘Iggy Pop: The Passenger’  by Stephen Barber (expected 2017-18) will take an original approach to the fifty-year anti-career in music… Read More »

New Rose

New Rose

22 Oct 1976. Release of ‘New Rose’ by the Damned on Stiff Records, the first UK punk single. Above image… Read More »

Clash …

Clash ...

09 Oct 1976. Tonight, the Clash in Leighton Buzzard at the Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre, which – in the words of… Read More »

Metallic K.O.

Metallic K.O.

25 SEPT. 1976. In UK record stores this very day – on import from France – was Metallic KO by… Read More »

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REVERB is a series of books on cultures and histories of popular music, published by Reaktion Books and distributed in North America by the University of Chicago Press.

Each of the books in the series offers a new perspective on the connections between music, particular artists and performers, musical cultures and the times and / or places they emerge from.

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EMAIL: johnscanlan AT reaktionbooks.co.uk

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