Sex Pistols : poison in the machine
Scanlan, John, 1964-2016
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The explosive story of the Sex Pistols is now so familiar that the essence of what they represented has been lost in a fog of nostalgia and rock'n'roll cliché. In 1976 the rise of the Sex Pistols was regarded in apocalyptic terms, and the punks as visitors from an unwanted future bringing chaos and confusion. John Scanlan considers the Sex Pistols as the first successful art project of their manager, Malcolm McLaren, a vision born out of radical politics, boredom, and his deep and unrelenting talent for perverse opportunism. Scanlan tells the story of how McLaren's project - designed, in any case to fail - foundered on the development of the Pistols into a great rock band and the inconvenient artistic emergence of John Lydon.
Main title:
Sex Pistols : poison in the machine / John Scanlan.
Author:
Scanlan, John, 1964-, author
Imprint:
London : Reaktion Books, 2016.
Collation:
270 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography and index.
ISBN:
9781780237541 (hbk)
Dewey class:
782.42166092782.4216782.42166
LC class:
ML421.S47
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1831988
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