Taking a big-picture view of the post-punk period, this book recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. It presents many anecdotes and insights, and features the likes of Joy Division, The Fall, Pere Ubu, PiL and Talking Heads. It is of interest to fans of post-punk music.

33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books cut to the heart of the music on each album. Joy Division only released two albums but they led the way out of punk rock and towards Madchester.

Revered by his peers and idolised by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy rich in artistic genius. But although mesmerising on stage, in his private life he was introverted and had desperate mood swings. Here, his widow pieces together why - despite his impending international fame and young family - Curtis took his own life on 18 May 1980.

Details the 'post-punk' music scene using several black and white photos. This title also includes a CD.

From The Joshua Tree to Blood Sugar Sex Magik , from Murmur to Kid A , U2, REM, Radiohead and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers have produced some of the most memorable rock albums in the post-punk era. With a focus on internal creative dynamics, this book studies these four rock bands.

An autobiography that presents the author's take on the ups and downs of a band as notorious for its in-house fighting as for its great music; and on a life that has endured prison in America, drugs, bankruptcy, divorce, and the often bleak results of a legendary thirst.

Companion volume to the hugely popular This is Uncool in which Garry Mulholland moves from singles to albums

Full title: Joy Division and the Making of Unknown Pleasures. Setting the scenes in the context of the band's early history and the Manchester music world when it was recorded, this is a unique track-by- track guide to Joy Division's classic album. Including interviews with the musicians, producers, fans and technicians involved, this book provides an insight into the making of a modern ...

With a thorough discography and a broad range of interviews, as well as many unseen archive photographs and clippings, 'Rough Trade' tells the remarkable story of this distinctive label, and how it has changed over the past three decades.

For 25 years Mark E Smith and The Fall have consistently produced the most original, uncompromising, and complex records available in contemporary music. In 'Hip Priest' Simon Ford tells, for the first time, Smith's and The Fall's uncensored story - all the sackings, the bust-ups, the hard and the good times - in all its mad glory.

This book contains frank and often shocking confessions. Lydia Lunch relays in graphic detail a predator's diary, revealing the true psychological repercussions of sexual misadventure. From New York to London to New Orleans, 'Paradoxia' is an uncensored account of one woman's assault on the male species. With an introduction by Jerry Stahl and a foreword by Thurston Moore.

Factory Records' reputation and fortune were founded on two bands - Joy Division and New Order - and one single-minded and stubborn personality: its media-friendly director, Anthony H. Wilson. Mick Middles tells the real story of Factory's spectacular history.

Jon Savage's Ralph Gleason Award-winning England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s. Full of anedcote, insight, and exclusive interviews, it tells the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid decline of the last great rock'n'roll band and the cultural moment they came to define. The critical reputation of England's ...

The story of post-punk indie rock in America and the bands whose do-it-yourself ethic paved the way for the grunge phenomenon of the 1990s. Beginning with the pioneering and notorious punk band, Black Flag, the story continues with Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr and others.

In 1987, Lisa Carver and her friend Rachel - both 17 - set up a punk show. When the headlining act got lost, the audience was angry and the promoters hid in the bathroom. Then Lisa got an idea. The girls put on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, mounted the stage, smoked cigars, caterwauled, took off their clothes and hit things and people.