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Totally Wired features 32 interviews with the post-punk era''s most innovative musicians and colourful personalities. From Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, Edwyn Collins, it also includes conversations with the most influential of label bosses, managers, record producers, DJs and journalists - such as John Peel and Paul Morley. Crackling with argument and anecdote, these conversations bring a rich human dimension post-punk''s exceptional characters, from their earliest days to their glorious and sometimes disastrous musical adventures. Along with interviews, we get ''overviews'': further reflections by Simon Reynolds on key icons and crucial scenes, including John Lydon and Public Image Ltd, Ian Curtis and Joy Division, and the lineage of glam grotesquerie running from Siouxsie & The Banshees to the New Romantics to Leigh Bowery.

Totally Wired Postpunk Interviews and Overviews

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 5 February 2009
      ISBN-13 9780571235490
      978-0571235490
      ISBN-10 0571235492
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Totally Wired features 32 interviews with the post-punk era''s most innovative musicians and colourful personalities. From Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, Edwyn Collins, it also includes conversations with the most influential of label bosses, managers, record producers, DJs and journalists - such as John Peel and Paul Morley. Crackling with argument and anecdote, these conversations bring a rich human dimension post-punk''s exceptional characters, from their earliest days to their glorious and sometimes disastrous musical adventures. Along with interviews, we get ''overviews'': further reflections by Simon Reynolds on key icons and crucial scenes, including John Lydon and Public Image Ltd, Ian Curtis and Joy Division, and the lineage of glam grotesquerie running from Siouxsie & The Banshees to the New Romantics to Leigh Bowery.

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