One of the most important and lucid books ever written on punk history In England, England's Dreaming. Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond finally has his Spanish edition.
Journalist Jon savage travels, hand in hand with the Sex Pistols, the history of the genre, the band and its members, in a essay-encyclopedia-research (yes, all that) that rescues the bastard birth, conflictive development and resounding fall of punk.
In 1976, not an easy year for English society, some young people led by the histrionic John lydon, they got on a stage and began to spit out all the poison that was being felt in the streets, with unemployment reaching the highest rates in the history of the European country. A whole generation of no-future teenagers embraced the Pistols' speech and many other bands that emerged, causing a series of political, social and cultural changes that shook the royal establishment.
The journalistic investigation was published in 1991, and Savage decided that the Sex Pistols were the perfect common thread to tell the history of punk., and explain with a metaphor a current that «He insisted on living a hypertensive present, but that is history, nothing more than another English dream.
England's dreaming reviews, with meticulous historical work, the achievements, miseries and meanings that the Sex Pistols went through, and punk in general: from the particular way of negotiating with the record companies, the interpersonal relationships within the group, the unfortunate tour of the United States, nihilism and the chain of events (fights, deaths, etc.) that hastened the disappearance of the band.
For all those interested in the history of punk, music, or social phenomena, England's Dreaming is an excellent opportunity to approach a time when, from music, many young people thought that some things could be changed, even if they are minimal.
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