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12%OFFKris Needs - Dream Baby Dream: Suicide: A New York Story - 9781783057887 - V9781783057887
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Dream Baby Dream: Suicide: A New York Story

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Description for Dream Baby Dream: Suicide: A New York Story Hardcover. The book charts Suicide's uncompromising roller coaster from formative days in performance art and avant garde experimentation to chaotic early shows at drug-infested downtown hotbed the Project of Living Artists. With an introduction by Lydia Lunch. Num Pages: 304 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: AVGU; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 242 x 33. Weight in Grams: 722.
Appearing in early 70s New York City as primal prototype street punks, Suicide are now hailed as one of the most important and influential groups of the 20th century, inspiring that decade's major musical movements but too feared and shunned to be awarded their rightful acclaim at the time. Confronting shocked audiences with their electronic New York blues , singer Alan Vega and instrumentalist Martin Rev fearlessly mirrored the city's sleazy underbelly and decay on blood-freezing gutter-scapes such as 'Ghost Rider' and 'Frankie Teardrop' while invoking doo-wop purity on timeless love songs like 'Cheree' and 'Dream Baby Dream'.The ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Omnibus Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783057887
SKU
V9781783057887
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About Kris Needs
Kris Needs is a former NME journalist and Zigzag editor. He has written several rock biographies about Blondie and George Clinton (both published by Omnibus Press), Joe Strummer and the Legend of the Clash, The Scream: The Music Myths and Misbehaviour of Primal Scream and Trash! The Complete New York Dolls. H. He is a regular contributor to Record Collector ... Read more

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