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Scanlan, John, 1964- author.
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Sex Pistols (Musical group)
Punk rock musicians -- England -- Biography.
Punk rock music -- England -- History and criticism.
Punk culture -- England.
Punk rock music.
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Sex Pistols : poison...
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Sex Pistols : poison in the machine / John Scanlan.
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Scanlan, John, 1964- author.
London : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2016.
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Sex Pistols (Musical group)
Punk rock musicians -- England -- Biography.
Punk rock music -- England -- History and criticism.
Punk culture -- England.
Punk rock music.
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9781780237541 (hardcover)
1780237545 (hardcover)
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270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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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 cliche. 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. McLaren deliberately set a collision course with establishments, both conservative and counter-cultural, and succeeded beyond his highest expectations. 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. Moving between London and New York, and with a fascinating cast of delinquents, petty criminals and misfits, Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine is not just a book about a band. It is about the times, the ideas, the coincidences and the characters that made punk, that ended with the Sex Pistols - beaten, bloody and overdosed - sensationally self-destructing on stage in San Francisco in January 1978, and that transformed popular culture throughout the world.
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Hawaii State Library
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782.42166 Sex Pistols Sc
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