England’s Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock

It’s a work that is not only the definitive account of the times and its subject, but one that has come to define the writer himself. Jon Savage literally wrote the book on punk, and that's some achievement. This is it.

This is definitive . . . Savage looks at punk from a sociological perspective as much as musical one . . . he reanimates the Sex Pistols’ huge social impact.

The definitive history of the English punk movement . . . you could not ask for a livelier, more impartial study.’a

A monumental survey . . . [has] a good claim to be the definitive work on the subject.

Monumental . . . A tale of genius and stupidity, poverty and riches, of working-class lads and their sinister, student manager, of Britain and America, drugs and self-destruction and a Big, Bad Blond, the Sex Pistols Story is pure rock’n’roll, right up there with Marilyn Monro and Jon And Yoko.

A great pop tragedy . . . [Savage] instilled an obsession with the roads not taken.