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Sweet Dreams - From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics (Paperback, Main)
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Sweet Dreams - From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics (Paperback, Main)
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*Includes an exclusive new chapter* 'Excellent' Guardian 'Hugely
enjoyable' Irish Times 'Dazzling' LRB 'Fascinating' New Statesman
'An absolute must-read' GQ An NME and BBC Culture Book of the Year
2020 For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this. From the
testimony of the people who lived it, comes Dylan Jones' masterful
history of the Blitz kids, synth-pop and the style press, from 1975
to 1985. 'Few music scenes have received more opprobrium than the
New Romantics. A bunch of fame-grabbing clothes-horses? Certainly.
But also, a progressive force that opened new routes for music
while embracing most genders, ethnicities and sexual preferences.'
MOJO 'Compelling reading for those who lived and breathed the
indulgence of the era without realising its significance or
contemplating its legacy.' Simon Armitage 'Dylan Jones explains how
a bunch of penniless nightclub show-offs morphed into pop royalty
in the 1980s . . . An excitable patchwork of interviews, punctuated
with gossip and pertinent theory.' UNCUT 'It's all here: the
swishing, the androgynous preening, the sweetly-dreamt synth-pop
splendour of early '80s Britain. Something was happening, and Mr.
Jones knew what it was.' Barney Hoskyns
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