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Despite releasing records only on independent labels and receiving
virtually no radio play, Dead Kennedys routinely top both critic
and fan polls as the greatest punk band of the late 1970s and early
1980s. Their sound was inventive and tetchy, and front man Jello
Biafra's lyrics were incisive and often scathing. This
chronicle--the first in-depth book written about Dead
Kennedys--uses dozens of firsthand interviews, photos, and original
artwork to offer a new perspective on a group that was mired in
controversy almost from its inception. It examines and applauds the
band's key role in transforming punk rhetoric, both polemical and
musical, into something genuinely threatening and enormously funny.
Author Alex Ogg puts the local and global trajectory of punk into
context and, while not flinching from the wildly differing takes
the individual band members have on the evolution of the band,
attempts to be celebratory--if not uncritical.
This book is the author's voice raised against the `groupthink'
Soviet-style cult of personality that surrounds the Queen, her
heirs and successors. He's calling for an end to the corruption of
Queen's consent, sovereign's protection and the deals she and her
family do behind closed doors. These he calls the 'evil trinity',
which the revelation of the Paradise Papers has made four. This
book is his chance to open people's eyes to what goes on and to say
don't allow deference and the best propaganda machine in the world
to cloud your vision. "The job of head of state is too important to
let hereditary nepotism choose who should hold that post. I want
the right to vote for my head of state."
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