Dylan Jones
Sweet Dreams : From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of...
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Includes an exclusive new chapterExcellent GuardianHugely enjoyable Irish TimesDazzling LRB Fascinating New Statesman An absolute mustread GQAn NME and BBC Culture Book of the Year 2020For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this.From the testimony of the people who lived it, comes Dylan Jones masterful history of the Blitz kids, synthpop and the style press, from 1975 to 1985. Few music scenes have received more opprobrium than the New Romantics. A bunch of famegrabbing clotheshorses? Certainly. But also, a progressive force that opened new routes for music while embracing most genders, ethnicities and sexual preferences. MOJO Compelling reading for those who lived and breathed the indulgence of the era without realising its significance or contemplating its legacy. Simon Armitage Dylan Jones explains how a bunch of penniless nightclub showoffs morphed into pop royalty in the 1980s . . . An excitable patchwork of interviews, punctuated with gossip and pertinent theory. UNCUTIts all here the swishing, the androgynous preening, the sweetlydreamt synthpop splendour of early 80s Britain. Something was happening, and Mr. Jones knew what it was. Barney Hoskyns
Binding: Paperback;704 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: AVC; Weight: 704 g; Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 49
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Includes an exclusive new chapterExcellent GuardianHugely enjoyable Irish TimesDazzling LRB Fascinating New Statesman An absolute mustread GQAn NME and BBC Culture Book of the Year 2020For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this.From the testimony of the people who lived it, comes Dylan Jones masterful history of the Blitz kids, synthpop and the style press, from 1975 to 1985. Few music scenes have received more opprobrium than the New Romantics. A bunch of famegrabbing clotheshorses? Certainly. But also, a progressive force that opened new routes for music while embracing most genders, ethnicities and sexual preferences. MOJO Compelling reading for those who lived and breathed the indulgence of the era without realising its significance or contemplating its legacy. Simon Armitage Dylan Jones explains how a bunch of penniless nightclub showoffs morphed into pop royalty in the 1980s . . . An excitable patchwork of interviews, punctuated with gossip and pertinent theory. UNCUTIts all here the swishing, the androgynous preening, the sweetlydreamt synthpop splendour of early 80s Britain. Something was happening, and Mr. Jones knew what it was. Barney Hoskyns
Binding: Paperback;704 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: AVC; Weight: 704 g; Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 49
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Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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Dylan Jones
Sweet Dreams : From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of...
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