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Few people can say they have shaped the cultural landscape of the last four decades while crossing paths with some of the most extraordinary personalities on the planet. But then, of course, Dylan Jones isn't just anyone. These Foolish Things captivatingly charts Dylan's life: from his peripatetic childhood and late adolescence in 1970s London - a city then alive with possibility - to his award-winning tenure at what would become one of the most dynamic magazines of its era, GQ. It details how he came to be in that hot seat: a journey through the Swinging London slipstreams of punk and new romanticism, and through i-D, The Face and Arena, which created the platform on which GQ was based, with Dylan as a common denominator. Littered with a gold-star cast of characters - including a who's who of celebrity from David Bowie and Bryan Ferry to Alastair Campbell and Prince Charles, via Samuel L. Jackson, Piers Morgan and Rihanna - this memoir reflects on how GQ became an established style and how Dylan sought to stir up music, politics and fashion. Witty, perceptive and deliciously entertaining, but by turns bravely vulnerable, These Foolish Things is a memoir like no other: a dazzling retelling of the start of the twenty-first century from one of the world's most fascinating media giants.

A witty, perceptive memoir tracking Dylan Jones's twenty memorable years at GQ at the turn of the century.

Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s, The Velvet Underground represent ground zero. Crystallizing the idea of the bohemian, urban, narcissistic art school gang, around a psychedelic rock and roll band - a stylistic idea that evolved in the rarefied environs of Andy Warhol's Factory - The Velvets were the first major American rock group with a mixed gender line-up; they never smiled in photographs, wore sunglasses indoors, and in the process invented the archetype. They were avant-garde nihilists, writing about drug abuse, prostitution, paranoia, and sado-masochistic sex at a time when the rest of the world was singing about peace and love. Dylan Jones' definitive oral history of The Velvet Underground draws on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, film-makers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, to celebrate not only their impact but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever into the 21st century.

Okres nowego romantyzmu New Romantic, jakkolwiek luźno go zdefiniować, z pewnością obrodził w mnóstwo niezwykle wyjątkowych artystów, z których wielu zagorzale propagowało to, co było przez chwilę znane jako muzyka taneczna białych Europejczyków: Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Soft Cell, Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, Ultravox, Simple Minds, The Normal, The Human League, Heaven 17, Visage, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Tubeway Army (a potem Gary Numan), Yazoo, Classix Nouveaux i Japan. Wraz z biegiem lat, gatunek ten stał się jeszcze bardziej podzielony, co zaowocowało takimi zespołami jak Bow Wow Wow, ABC, Funkapolitan, Culture Club, Haysi Fantayzee, Blue Rondo la Turk, Tears for Fears, Wham! oraz przebranżowieniem się grupy Adam and the Ants. Niektóre zespoły powstały w bezpośredniej konsekwencji danej chwili (Spandau, Duran, Culture Club), inne przekształciły się w bardziej błyszczące wersje samych siebie (Simple Minds, Psychedelic Furs, Japan itp.), a inne powstały dość nieoczekiwanie (w tym te związane, na przykład, z Mute Records Daniela Millera). Przez jakiś czas właśnie tak realizowały się marzenia. Słodkie marzenia i sny. Tytułowe Sweet Dreams.

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Dylan Jones' luminous excavation of Jimmy Webb's song 'Wichita Lineman' offers a portal into a defining moment of American cultural history.

One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era of the New Romantics grew out of the remnants of post-punk and developed quickly alongside club culture, ska, electronica, and goth. The scene had a huge influence on the growth of print and broadcast media, and was arguably one of the most bohemian environments of the late twentieth century. Not only did it visually define the decade, it was the catalyst for the Second British Invasion, when the US charts would be colonised by British pop music - making it one of the most powerful cultural exports since the Beatles. In Sweet Dreams, Dylan Jones charts the rise of the New Romantics through testimony from the people who lived it. For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this

The true story of former criminal defence lawyer Dylan Rhys Jones' experience of defending Rhyl serial killer Peter Moore, found guilty in 1996 of murdering four men and seriously assaulting many more, and referred to by the judge when sentencing as as dangerous a man as it is possible to find. -- Y Lolfa