Author: Stephen Palmer

Highlights

-Includes new interviews with punk musicians of the era, including Lora Logic, John “Eddie” Edwards, and Alan Lee Shaw.

-Features new interviews with notable figures, including Simon Draper (legendary Virgin Records Head of A&R), John Webster (Virgin Records MD), and Andy Czezowski & Susan Carrington of the famed Roxy punk club.

-Includes input from fans who attended notable gigs.

-16 photos, one never before seen.

-Written by a musician and long-time punk fan.

-Punk: the filth and the fury. But it was so much more than that.

In The History of Punk Music, author Stephen Palmer depicts the punk rock explosion of 1976-77 in tired, bored, and socially stratified Britain. Emerging from the litter-strewn streets of London, punk’s music expressed the suppressed anger of young working-class people with nowhere to go and nothing meaningful to do. Its music was raw and shocking. Its fashion mocked staid middle-class values. Its art was expressed in cut-outs and by sprayed graffiti. Yet beneath this sudden explosion, frightening to those of the establishment who witnessed it, incomprehensible to white-collar workers commuting to and from work, lay a philosophy of individual creative expression and an ethic of anti-racism and liberation for women.

Punk in its original form was a movement of human liberation, a Year Zero moment in the history of a nation more used to colonial exploits and a vast empire. It spoke of fury, of hopelessness, of cathartic anger expressed through visceral, exciting, revolutionary music. Its visual images captured the gaze of the nation, and soon the world. And all of its central figures yelled, hammered and smashed the doors of the Establishment.

This book charts the origins, appearance, development and ending of punk. It is a book of passion and vivid description, befitting the individual visions of the original punk musicians. Punk was filthy and furious, yet it was also a new dawn for the British music scene.

RRP: £22

About the Author
Stephen Palmer is a professionally published author of thirty years, whose work has garnered much acclaim in genre, independent and national press. His books have encompassed SF, Steampunk, and in narrative nonfiction Music and Anthropology. He was the man behind the psychedelic group Mooch, and the real world project Blue Lily Commission. He lives in south Shropshire with his partner and a large number of musical instruments.

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