Pretty vacant: a history of punk

"Like a battered old seven-inch single, Pretty Vacant has two sides: first the underground roots of punk are traced to places such as New York (CBGBs) and Detroit, through bands such as the Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Television and Blondie. Then, following the Sex Pistols outburst on Bill Grundy's TV show, tabloid outrage was swiftly eclipsed by a blossoming of the movement in time for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Punk had travelled from the underground to the mainstream in the space of six months." "Talking to the likes of Malcolm McLaren, Jah Wobble, Glen Matlock, Roadent and many more, Phil Strongman vividly recreates the eruption that was punk, and charts its spread acrose Britain and to the West Coast of America. Thirty years on, Pretty Vacant is the definitive account of punk is golden age."--BOOK JACKET.