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From Simon Reynolds, the author of the bestselling post-punk history Rip It Up and Start Again, comes Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews, a formidable companion book of conversations.
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Summary
Totally Wired features 32 interviews with the post-punk era’s most innovative musicians and colourful personalities. From Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, Edwyn Collins, it also includes conversations with the most influential of label bosses, managers, record producers, DJs and journalists – such as John Peel and Paul Morley. Crackling with argument and anecdote, these conversations bring a rich human dimension post-punk’s exceptional characters, from their earliest days to their glorious and sometimes disastrous musical adventures. Along with interviews, we get ‘overviews’: further reflections by Simon Reynolds on key icons and crucial scenes, including John Lydon and Public Image Ltd, Ian Curtis and Joy Division, and the lineage of glam grotesquerie running from Siouxsie & The Banshees to the New Romantics to Leigh Bowery.
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Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978 – 1984 and, most recently, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock.
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