Burning Britain: The History Of UK Punk 1980–1984 by Ian Glasper

PM PRESS  |  AUGUST 2014 PAPERBACK  |  456 PAGES  |  6" x 1.5" x 9" The grim reality of being a teenage punk rocker in Thatcher’s Britain resulted in some of the most primal and potent music ever committed to plastic. Burning Britain is the definitive overview of that previously overlooked era. As the Seventies drew to a close and the media declared punk dead and buried, a whole new breed of band was emerging from the gutter. Harder, faster, and more politically aggressive than their ’76–’77 predecessors, the likes of Discharge, The Exploited, and G.B.H. were to prove not only more relevant but arguably just as influential. Several years in the making and featuring hundreds of new interviews and photographs, Burning Britain is the true story of the UK punk scene from 1980 to 1984 told for the first time by the bands and record labels that created it. Covering the country region by region, author Ian Glasper profiles legendary bands like Vice Squad, Angelic Upstarts, Blitz, Anti-Now