 | Mark Paytress: Vicious - The Art Of Dying Young
Buy new: £15.26 A good overview of Sidney's life, though perhaps a little too reliant on the work of other people.
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 | White Line Fever: Lemmy - The Autobiography by Lemmy Kilmister
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.77 This is an informative run thru' the life of Lemmy; from early days right up to the present and all the mayhem in between.
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 | The Progressive Patriot by Billy Bragg
Buy new: £11.87 / Used from: £2.63 Billy Bragg; you gotta love him! Great stuff on what it means to be English with plenty of English history, local [Essex] history and autobiography. A great read.
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 | God's Lonely Men: The Lurkers by Pete Esso Haynes
Buy new: £6.35 / Used from: £2.99 So, not all drummers are illiterate buffoons. The Lurkers: highly underrated with some great tunes [described in some quarters as the British Ramones!].
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 | Please Kill Me: Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £4.40 Excellent overview of the period, though more on t'other side of the pond.
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 | England's Dreaming by Jon Savage
Buy new: £7.80 / Used from: £6.81 A more Britcentric view.
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 | Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs by John Lydon
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £4.45 Lydon gobs off! Well written with plenty of anecdotes.
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 | Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk, 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.99 C30 C60 C90 Go! All you need for post punk music.
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 | Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the "Clash" by Pat Gilbert
Buy used from: £1.00 Excellent insight into one of the most important British bands ever. Good biogs of individual members too.
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 | Punk by Stephen Colegrave
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £5.47 Looks great on yer coffee table!
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