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Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews
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Product Description
"Totally Wired" features 32 interviews with the era's most innovative musicians and colourful personalities. From Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, Green Gartside, Edwyn Collins, it also includes conversations with the most influential of label bosses, managers, record producers, deejays and journalists - such as John Peel and Paul Morley. Crackling with argument and anecdote, these conversations bring a rich human dimension to the post-punk story and its exceptional characters, from their earliest days to their glorious and sometimes disastrous musical adventures. Along with interviews, we get 'overviews': further reflections by Simon Reynolds on post-punk's key icons and crucial scenes, including John Lydon and Public Image Ltd, Ian Curtis and Joy Division, and the lineage of glam grotesquerie running from Siouxsie & The Banshees to the New Romantics to Leigh Bowery.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #85101 in Books
- Published on: 2009-02-05
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 452 pages
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About the Author
Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978 - 1984 and, most recently, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock.
Customer Reviews
again and again and again....
There is apparently a new hefty work of non-fiction soon to be published by John Paul Middle Reynolds called "More notes..." in which he/she/they have gathered notes that were written on scraps of paper, backs of enveloppes, found in bins, written whilst various music books were written then gahered together in this book with a cut up collage of previous covers, shopping lists and reminders such as- take cat to vet- and some indecipherable phone numbers.
Rather lengthy at 927 pages, including notes about the notes and a bibliography that is 194 pages and some very dark family photos.
But its a must for any true fan of post-punk-rock-hip-glam-electro-jazz-folk-funk.
"Rip it up and start again" was a great piece of work. Do we need this as well? Discuss in no less than 50,00 words
