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Suedehead

Richard Allen
Suedehead Book PDF

Author : Richard Allen
Publisher : Dean Street Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910570487

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Skinheads were dead, man. Phased out. Home had never appealed. All his life he had dreamed about a plush flat somewhere in the West End of London. So now he would make the leap from poverty street into the affluent society. In one gigantic jump. Fresh out of stir after kicking a police sergeant's head in, former skinhead Joe Hawkins is heading for the big time - a job in a firm of stockbrokers, a swanky flat and (hopefully) plenty of money. A whole new style is called for - so Joe becomes a Suedehead. The hair is a few millimetres longer, the uniform a velvet-collared crombie coat, bowler hat and neatly-furled umbrella - with razor sharp tip. For while Joe might be playing the establishment pet, he remains the unrepentently vicious, cunning hooligan from Skinhead, intent on pulling women, stealing and putting the boot in. It's not long before he finds some other Suedes willing to commit mayhem under cover of respectability... but can Joe and respectability ever really get along? Suedehead is the second of Richard Allen's era-defining cult novels featuring anti-hero Joe Hawkins. First published in 1971, this new edition features an introduction by Andrew Stevens. "I did happen to read the book when it came out and I was quite interested in the whole Richard Allen cult... suedeheads and skinheads and smoothies were very much part of daily life. There was a tremendous air of intensity... something interesting grabbed me about the whole thing." Morrissey "(Richard Allen's) work shouldn't require a theoretical summing up, once enough of those to whom it appeals understand its attraction we will have superceded this society." Stewart Home

Morrissey

David Bret
Morrissey Book PDF

Author : David Bret
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1861057873

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Morrissey by David Bret Pdf

Morrissey is Britain's most articulate singer-songwriter, a lyricist of aching loneliness and lacerating wit. His latest album, "You Are the Quarry," is one of his best solo efforts since the disbanding of the Smiths. Here, Morrissey's friends and entourage speak frankly about the reclusive pop idol.

Tales of The Smiths: A Graphic Biography

Con Chrisoulis
Tales of The Smiths A Graphic Biography Book PDF

Author : Con Chrisoulis
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781783233960

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Tales of The Smiths: A Graphic Biography by Con Chrisoulis Pdf

There was never a band like The Smiths. Formed at the coalface of a depressed England in 1982, their mix of wit, realism and a wry self-awareness would take them to heights young Morrissey could only dream of from the confines of his dull education, a brutal Manchester upbringing, and the horror of cleaning up body parts as a hospital porter. Climaxing with the release of their first ever single; using interviews and reviews, imagined conversation and peerless artistry; visiting every influence from the New York Dolls to Nico, from Bowie and The Sex Pistols to Patti Smith, Con Chrisoulis brings to brilliant life the troubled teenage years of the unique artists that are Morrissey, Marr, Rourke and Joyce. With a foreword by Si Wolstencroft and an introduction by Johnny Rogan, this is the story of the birth of The Smiths, one of the most influential UK bands, ever. It’s time the tale were told…

Mozipedia

Simon Goddard
Mozipedia Book PDF

Author : Simon Goddard
Publisher : Random House
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407028842

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Mozipedia by Simon Goddard Pdf

Steven Patrick Morrissey is one of the most original and controversial voices in the history of popular music. With The Smiths, he led the most influential British guitar group of the 1980s, his enigmatic wit and style defining a generation. As a solo artist, he has continued to broach subjects no other singer would dare. Worshipped by some, vilified by others, Morrissey is a unique rock and roll creation. The 300,000 words of Mozipedia make this the most intimate and in-depth biographical portrait of the man and his music yet. Bringing together every song, album, collaborator, key location, every hero, book, film and record to have influenced his art, it is the summation of years of meticulous research. Morrissey authority Simon Goddard has interviewed almost everybody of any importance, making Mozipedia the last word on Morrissey and The Smiths.

Meetings with Morrissey

Len Brown
Meetings with Morrissey Book PDF

Author : Len Brown
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857122407

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Meetings with Morrissey by Len Brown Pdf

Morrissey is one of the most provocative, individual and controversial performers in popular music. From the formation of his Manchester band The Smiths in 1982, through to the imminent release of his 2008 solo album Years Of Refusal, his career has spanned 50 UK Top 40 singles and 20 UK Top 10 albums. Including previously unpublished encounters, Meetings with Morrissey gets behind the public image to tell Morrissey’s story in his own words and explore in fine detail the extraordinary subject matter of his songs. The book offers in-depth insight into the diverse artists Morrissey has celebrated, via lyrics or Smiths’ covers, including Patti Smith, Pat Phoenix, Billy Fury, Marc Bolan, James Dean and The New York Dolls. Above all, it focuses on Morrissey’s lifelong commitment to promoting the genius of Oscar Wilde. Len Brown, a former NME writer and television producer, has interviewed Morrissey more times than any journalist. He first saw The Smiths back in 1983 and became the first writer to interview the artist about the death of his band and the birth of his solo career in 1988.

Scorcha! Skins, Suedes and Style from the Streets 1967-1973

Paul Anderson,Mark Baxter
Scorcha Skins Suedes and Style from the Streets 1967 1973 Book PDF

Author : Paul Anderson,Mark Baxter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Music
ISBN : 1785584936

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Scorcha! Skins, Suedes and Style from the Streets 1967-1973 by Paul Anderson,Mark Baxter Pdf

The suedehead subculture was an early-1970s offshoot of skinhead subculture in the UK and Ireland. Although sharing similarities to 1960s skinheads, suedeheads grew their hair longer and dressed more formally, and although often working class like skinheads, some had white collar jobs, which bred a more formal attire such as brogues or loafers instead of heavy boots. Though there were similarities in musical taste at the beginning, by the late 1970's Suedeheads were listening to 2-Tone artists such as 'The Beat', and glam rock bands such as 'Slade' and 'Mott The Hoople'. Beautifully illustrated throughout and with a foreword from none other than Paul Weller, this is the definitive visual history of one of Britain's subcultures from the 1970's.

Skinheads

Tiffini Travis,Perry Hardy
Skinheads Book PDF

Author : Tiffini Travis,Perry Hardy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313359545

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Skinheads by Tiffini Travis,Perry Hardy Pdf

This book provides a fascinating examination of one of the most notorious countercultures in the United States. Skinheads: A Guide to An American Subculture is an insider's look at the history of skinheads in the United States, from their emergence from the U.S. hardcore underground in the 1980s in New York City, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, to the current scene that thrives in many major metropolitan areas today. What makes this revelatory book so compelling is its one-of-a-kind view of skinhead culture from the inside out. Coauthor Perry Hardy is a skinhead, bass player for the band, The Templars, and veteran member of the American skinhead scene since the onset of the movement. Based on his experiences, plus interviews with dozens of skinheads of all kinds, Skinheads draws back the curtain to reveal a world that more often is simply a haven for those disaffected from society, rather than a subculture of hatred or violence.

Morrissey FAQ

D. McKinney
Morrissey FAQ Book PDF

Author : D. McKinney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781495028939

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Morrissey FAQ by D. McKinney Pdf

MORRISSEY FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO ABOUT THIS CHARMING MAN

Skinhead

Richard Allen
Skinhead Book PDF

Author : Richard Allen
Publisher : Dean Street Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910570470

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Sixteen-year-old Joe Hawkins is the anti-hero's anti-hero. His life is ruled by clothes, beer, football and above all violence - violence against hippies, authority, racial minorities and anyone else unfortunate enough to get in his way. Joe is a London skinhead - a member of a uniquely British subculture which arose rapidly in the late 1960's. While other skins were driven mainly by music, fashion and working-class pride, Joe and his mob use their formidable street style as a badge of aggressive rage, even while Joe dreams of making a better life for himself. Lacerating in its depiction of violence and sex, often shocking by today's standards, Skinhead is also a provocative cross-section of urban British society. It doesn't spare the hypocrisy, corruption or excessive permissiveness which, the author believed, allowed the extremist wing of skinhead culture to flourish. Skinhead, first published in 1970 and a huge cult bestseller, is now available for the first time in ebook form, with a new introduction by Andrew Stevens. Nearly fifty years on, it remains one of the most potent artefacts of British popular culture ever committed to print. "I did happen to read the book when it came out and I was quite interested in the whole Richard Allen cult... suedeheads and skinheads and smoothies were very much part of daily life. There was a tremendous air of intensity... something interesting grabbed me about the whole thing." Morrissey "(Richard Allen's) work shouldn't require a theoretical summing up, once enough of those to whom it appeals understand its attraction we will have superceded this society." Stewart Home

The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names

Adam Dolgins
The Big Book of Rock Roll Names Book PDF

Author : Adam Dolgins
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781683353379

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The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names by Adam Dolgins Pdf

The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world’s most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names. By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, the pages offer insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of hundreds of top musicians from the 1960s to the present. Originally published more than two decades ago to great success, it’s been out of print for years and has now been completely updated and expanded to feature dozens of exclusive interviews including conversations with groups like The Black Keys, The Killers, Twenty One Pilots, Coldplay, Cage the Elephant, and Vampire Weekend. From Arcade Fire to ZZ Top, this diverting and handsome collection reveals the often overlooked but defining histories of hundreds of the biggest names in rock and pop.

I Was Douglas Adams's Flatmate

Andrew McGibbon
I Was Douglas Adams s Flatmate Book PDF

Author : Andrew McGibbon
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780571253197

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I Was Douglas Adams's Flatmate by Andrew McGibbon Pdf

Beginning life as a series on Radio 4, I Was Douglas Adams's Flatmate is a series of interviews that examine a great artist, politician or innovator from the perspective of an assistant, lover, muse, flatmate or editor who was indispensable to them at a key moment in their career. We hear from Douglas Adams's flatmate who reveals how the writer got hooked on listening to Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights while writing Hitchhikers' Guide; Ernest Hemingway's La Secretaria, Sam Peckinpah's Girl Friday, Les Dawson's Gag-writer, Billie Holliday's Stand in, Will Carling's Physiotherapist, Johnny Cash's Tailor and David Beckham's Stylist, among others. McGibbon, who was Morrissey's drummer, engages the reader with the human behind the artist, providing a revealing insight into well known personalities.

Back to the Fifties

Michael D. Dwyer
Back to the Fifties Book PDF

Author : Michael D. Dwyer
Publisher : Oxford Music / Media
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199356843

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Back to the Fifties by Michael D. Dwyer Pdf

'Back to the Fifties' examines the explosion of Fifties nostalgia in Hollywood film and popular music from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. It both complicates and transcends standard diagnoses of the political function of nostalgia in popular media, and sheds new light on a crucial and underexamined period in American politics and culture. By closely examining the ways that 'the Fifties' were remade and recalled in films and in pop music, the book notes the importance of 'the Fifties' to a generation of Americans and explores the ways popular culture facilitates cultural memory.

Representations of Working-Class Masculinities in Post-War British Culture

Matthew Crowley
Representations of Working Class Masculinities in Post War British Culture Book PDF

Author : Matthew Crowley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429535710

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Representations of Working-Class Masculinities in Post-War British Culture by Matthew Crowley Pdf

This book presents an analysis of representations of white, heterosexual, working-class masculinities in British culture between 1945 and 1989 to trace the development of the sociocultural and material conditions that shaped the masculinities which are helping to shape contemporary culture. This book seeks to fan the ‘spark of hope’ in the past that informs our present. The period which saw the establishment of the welfare state and the construction and breakdown of the post-war consensus in British politics was of great significance in the formation and maintenance of working-class masculinities and their correspondent representations. The author engages with a variety of cultural texts across various modes and media including films (Alfie), plays (Don’t Look Back in Anger), television (Boys from the Blackstuff), and music (The Beatles), and employs the analysis of the representation of working-class masculinities as a lens through which to examine a range of historical and cultural moments. This book reinstates class as a central precept in the study of British cultural representations and offers a timely intervention in ongoing debates around class and gender identities in Britain. The book will be key reading for students and researchers with interests in twentieth-century social and cultural British history, masculinities and gender studies, twentieth-century British literature, British television, and cultural studies more broadly.

Settling the Pop Score

Stan Hawkins
Settling the Pop Score Book PDF

Author : Stan Hawkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351549097

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Settling the Pop Score by Stan Hawkins Pdf

The analysis of popular music forces us to rethink the assumptions that underpin our approaches to the study of Western music. Not least, it brings to the fore an idea that many musicologists still find uncomfortable - that commercial production and consumption can be aligned with artistic authenticity. Reading pop texts takes place through dialogue on many levels, which, as Stan Hawkins argues, deals with how musical events are shaped by personal alliances between the artist and the recipient. The need for a critical approach to evaluating popular music lies at the heart of this book. Hawkins explores the relationships that exist between music, spectatorship and aesthetics through a series of case studies of pop artists from the 1980s and 1990s. Madonna, Morrissey, Annie Lennox, the Pet Shop Boys and Prince represent the diversity of cultures, identities and sexualities that characterised the start of the MTV boom. Through the interpretation of aspects of the compositional design and musical structures of songs by these pop artists, Hawkins suggests ways in which stylistic and technical elements of the music relate to identity formation and its political motivations. Settling the Pop Score examines the role of irony and empathy, the question of gender, race and sexuality, and the relevance of textual analysis to the study of popular music. Interpreting pop music within the framework of musicology, Hawkins helps us to understand the pleasure so many people derive from these songs.

Lemon Socks

Trevor Coote
Lemon Socks Book PDF

Author : Trevor Coote
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326500887

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Lemon Socks by Trevor Coote Pdf

It is 1971. Glenn Turley is a 19 year old self-styled suedehead with a cherry-picked code of conduct that emphasises hard, productive work and eschews all aspects of criminality except for football hooliganism in which he is an enthusiastic participant, along with his crew, composed of mates from his dilapidated North London estate. However, he is in a race against time to reach the top rung before he becomes a dinosaur as suedehead fashion disappears before his eyes, along with his youth. Falling in love with a prostitute manages to divert his mind and to dislocate his actions from their dreadful consequences.