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  Passion Is A Fashion: The Real Story of The Clash

  by Pat Gilbert

  The definitive biography of legendary punk band the Clash, and the first to draw on original interviews with the band The only internationally successful, million-selling group to emerge from the late seventies London punk scene, the Clash set out to change the world with a potent mix of politics, iconic imagery, and blazing rock 'n' roll. It was an agenda mirrored in the Clash's music, which swiftly evolved... (more)
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  Please Kill Me

  The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

  by Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

  A star-studded cast of characters, artists, underground reporters and entrepreneurial groupies give first-hand backstage accounts of the drugs, sex and power struggles that permeate the punk community to chronicle the emergence of punk music in New York's underground.
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  Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll (Vintage)

  by Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus

  Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications.
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  Trainspotting: Book 1

  Trainspotting

  by Irvine Welsh

  For the first time in hardcover with the original jacket art: "The best book ever written by man or woman...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible."— Rebel, Inc. Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby,... (more)
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  A Riot of Our Own : Night and Day With the Clash

  by Green Johnny, Johnny Green

  Johnny Green was a footloose slacker who loved punk rock, stumbled into being a roadie for the Sex Pistols, then tripped again into a job pushing sound equipment for the Clash and driving their beat-up van to performances in the mean industrial towns of England. Disaffected youth anointed the Clash as their spokesmen and made the group synonymous with punk itself in the late 1970s. Eventually becoming the band's... (more)
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  The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town - 2nd Edition

  by Marcus Gray

  Revised and updated to cover the Clash's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the band members' post-Clash careers, The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town now includes the first full account of Joe Strummer's "Wilderness Years," his triumphant comeback with the Mescaleros, and his sudden and tragic early death. Extensively revised and updated from both its 1995 and 2001 incarnations, The Clash... (more)
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  Push Yourself Just a Little Bit More: Backstage at the Tour De France

  by Johnny Green

  The former manager of Britain’s rock group, The Clash, casts an irreverent eye over the fast, extravagant spectacle that is Le Tour de France , as he takes fans “backstage” at the 2003/04 tours for an unorthodox account of the world’s greatest race. Catch the buzz as he mingles with press, roadies and trophy girls and penetrates the inner sanctum to chat with celebrities like Sheryl Crow and David Millar. Feel... (more)
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  Joe Strummer and the Legend of The Clash

  by Kris Needs

  If one band could be said to symbolize British punk in its heyday, that band is The Clash. As a young journalist on tour with all of punk's biggest names, Kris Needs forged lifelong friendships with The Clash while witnessing their wild exploits firsthand. One of the first journalists to see the band live, Needs championed them from the start, becoming close friends with Joe Strummer and the rest of the group,... (more)
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  The Clash

  by The Clash

  The unique story of the Clash, by the Clash. The Clash were a band like no other. Pioneers of British punk rock, their incendiary gigs, intelligent songwriting, definitive style and passionate idealism caught the spirit of the times and made them a worldwide phenomenon. Rolling Stone magazine declared London Calling one of the greatest albums of all time, their autobiographical documentary Westway to ... (more)
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  Mods, Rockers, and the Music of the British Invasion

  by James E. Perone

  Musical floodgates were opened after the Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964. Suddenly, the U.S. record charts, radio and television were overrun with British rock and pop musicians. Although this British Invasion was the first exposure many Americans had to popular music from the United Kingdom, British pop — and more specifically British rock and roll — had been developing since... (more)
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  Flowers in the Dustbin The rise of Rick and Roll, 1947 - 1977

  by James Miller

  Analysis of the formative decades of rock and roll, from the early years to the late 1970's, referencing the jump blues of the 1940's, disc jockeys of the early 50's, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Velvet Underground, Jim Morrison, Sex Pistols, etc