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Boy About Town
UK Punk/Mod - Book - by Tony Fletcher
(2013)
Truly incredible book by Tony Fletcher, if you were 15 or 16 when Punk started ,this is the book for you :
'I
was no longer fitting in at school. I was unsure of my friends, and
they were increasingly unsure of me. I wanted to be a rock star.
But
while all around, voices were starting to break, acne beginning to
appear, facial hair sprouting, I remained all flabby flesh and innate
scruff, with a high-pitched whine and not a muscle to my name. I was the
runt of the class and rarely allowed to forget it. I had no father at
home to help me out, and could hardly talk to my mum.
So
I took solace in The Jam.'As a boy, Tony Fletcher frequently felt out
of place. Yet somehow he secured a ringside seat for one of the most
creative periods in British cultural history. Boy About Town tells the
story of the bestselling author's formative years in the pre- and
post-punk music scenes of London, counting down, from fifty to number
one: attendance at seminal gigs and encounters with musical heroes;
schoolboy projects that became national success stories; the style
culture of punks, mods and skinheads and the tribal violence that
enveloped them; life as a latchkey kid in a single-parent household;
weekends on the football terraces in a quest for street credibility; and
the teenage boy's unending obsession with losing his virginity.
Featuring
a vibrant cast of supporting characters (from school friends to rock
stars), and built up from notebooks, diaries, interviews, letters, and
issues of his now legendary fanzine Jamming!, Boy About Town is an
evocative, bittersweet, amusing and wholly original account of growing
up and coming of age in the glory days of the 1970s.
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