Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine by Scanlan, John

Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine

The explosive story of the Sex Pistols is now so familiar that the essence of what they...
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Author: John Scanlan
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Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine by Scanlan, John

Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine

$55.01

Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine

$55.01
Author: John Scanlan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The explosive story of the Sex Pistols is now so familiar that the essence of what they represented has been lost in a fog of nostalgia and rock 'n' roll clich . In 1976 the rise of the Sex Pistols was regarded in apocalyptic terms, and the punks as visitors from an unwanted future bringing chaos and confusion. In this book, John Scanlan considers the Sex Pistols as the first successful art project of their manager, Malcolm McLaren, a vision born out of radical politics, boredom, and his deep and unrelenting talent for perverse opportunism. As Scanlan shows, McLaren deliberately set a collision course with establishments, both conservative and counter-cultural, and succeeded beyond his highest expectations.

Scanlan tells the story of how McLaren's project--designed, in any case, to fail--foundered on the development of the Pistols into a great rock band and the inconvenient artistic emergence of John Lydon. Moving between London and New York, and with a fascinating cast of delinquents, petty criminals, and misfits, Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine is not just a book about a band, it is about the times, the ideas, the coincidences, and the characters that made punk; that ended with the Sex Pistols--beaten, bloody, and overdosed--sensationally self-destructing on stage in San Francisco in January 1978; and that transformed popular culture throughout the world.


Author: John Scanlan
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 05/15/2017
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781780237541

About the Author
John Scanlan is a writer and cultural historian based in Manchester, UK. His previous books for Reaktion include Easy Riders, Rolling Stones: On the Road in America, from Delta Blues to '70s Rock, Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar and Van Halen: Exuberant California, Zen Rock'n'roll.



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