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Iggy Pop hasn’t left a mark on music; he’s left it battered, bruised and covered in blood. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, here for the first time are his collected lyrics, complete with stunning original photographs, illustrations and Iggy and others’ reflections on a genre-defining music career that spans five decades.
Before she was a bestselling musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties, meaningful conversations and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living. Returning more than three decades later to Brookmans Park, scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters and pub car parks, the utopian cul-de-sacs, the train to Potters Bar and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children, the children who wanted none of it.
On the 40th anniversary of the release of ‘Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols’, this is the official, inside story of the whirlwind year of 1977 – the recording and release of the album and the year the Sex Pistols changed everything. From ‘God Save the Queen’ to ‘Holidays in the Sun’ and everything in between, it was a year of chaos and creation. Straight from the mouths of the Sex Pistols and their collaborators, with first-hand stories of secret gigs, recording sessions, fights, record label meltdowns and a media storm like nothing ever seen before, it is the inside line, told by the people who were there.
Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith’s evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe
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