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| PUNK The Whole Story
Here we go the 30th anniversary cash in starts here. Mojo "Punk" The Whole Story by it's very title alone flatters itself to decieve. As is nearly always the case, this book in my opinion suffers due to the fact that vast amounts of the real punk story is not even hinted at. All because of this prevaling superior attitude that London and New York were the be all and end all of the punk universe, which is bollocks! Every city has a tale to tell some more than others (check out "It Makes You Want To Spit" for evidence of this). This is another heavyweight tome of cut and paste lazy journalism. All the ground work was done years ago and its just the same old band pics and stories rehashed and repackaged yet again to fleece the ageing punk punters of their hard earned cash one more time for good old days nostalgia's sake. There have been numerous publications like this on the shelves over the years, that have covered this well trodden (and frankly getting boring now) path a million times before. This particular book is just like a glossier expanded hard back version of a Mojo Punk special, and if you bought the Punk mag specials then you don't really need to buy this book, even with its laughable safety pin and badge adorned old persons tartan rug on the cover. Are the publishers taking the piss here? The story this time goes from the Stooges to the Pistols to Green Day to get the nu punk! teenies interested. There are loads of glossy eye catching pics within its cover, a majority of which any punk worth their stripes will own or have seen before. And some of the printed facts are suspect like for example "Soo Catwoman" was amongst the Pistols fans onscreen during the infamous Grundy interview! Now I remember all the other 'S' names...Siouxsie, Simone, Severin and Simon Barker. But I don't recall the wonderful Soo on my crackling with static mid 70's tube? This is a book for the completist who will buy anything punk related regardless the casual buyer or novice. But its definitely not a vital read for the hardcore fan, so spend your money wisely. So have a browse through it in your local store and decide for yourself if its for you because god knows how many other 76/77 punk 30th birthday books , dvds etc we will be bombarded with over the next fifteen months? Maybe someone somewhere has been taking the time to document the real whole story and its not just another hollow claim on some graphic designers childishly cliched punky book cover dust jacket. Joe Donnelly - Belfast 23/9/06. AMAZON Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Dorling Kindersley H/B (September 7th 2006) ISBN: 1405316780 |
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