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Jon Savage is a bestselling author, broadcaster and journalist. His books include England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945 and 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded. He has written sleevenotes for Wire, St. Etienne and the Pet Shop Boys, among others, and his compilations include: Meridian 1970 (Heavenly/EMI 2005); Queer Noises: From the Closest to the Charts 1961 - 1976 (Trikont 2006); and Dreams Come True: Classic Electro 1982-87 (Domino 2008). His most recent book is the top ten bestselling This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History.WINNER OF THE RALPH J. GLEASON AWARD
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JEREMY DELLER AND SCOTT KING
INCLUDES FOREWORD BY JOHNNY MARR
Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive history of punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s.
'One of Britain's most trusted cultural historians.'
THE FACE
A pop-culture classic full of anecdote, insight and exclusive interviews, England's Dreaming tells the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid decline of the last great rock 'n' roll band and the cultural moment they came to define.
'The definitive history of the English punk movement.'
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'Still the strongest history of punk.'
GUARDIAN
'The best book about punk rock and pop culture ever.'
NME
(This book is part of a reissue of Jon Savage's seminal works: England's Dreaming, Teenage and 1966)