- The Best of Punk Magazine.
Product Description
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The very best of Punk—the legendary magazine thatdefined an
era—finds new life in this stunning anthology, featuring
originalarticles along with behind-the-scenes commentary and the
backstory on eachissue as told by editor-in-chief John Holmstrom.
Punkwas the Bible of the urban counterculture movement. It not
only gave punkmusic its name, but influenced the East Village art
scene and steered the punkaesthetic and attitude. The Best of
Punk Magazine includes high-qualityreprints of hard-to-find
original issues, as well as rare and unseen photos,essays,
interviews, and even handwritten contributions from the likes of
AndyWarhol, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols,
Lester Bangs,Legs McNeil, Lenny Kaye, and many more. For
collectors, lifelong punks, andthose just discovering what punk
is all about, this is the chance see thehistory of the movement
come back to life.
Review
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“This coffee-table book cherry-picks from the archive: a Patti
Smith Q&A, a carton strip (with real photos) starring Lester
Bangs, and a two-page centerfold of Debbie Harry, who’s billed as
‘Punk Playmate of the Month.’” — Rolling Stone, 4 Star Review
The anthology is packed tighter than CBGB in the 70s on a
Saturday night, with incredible interviews...art, comics, rants,
killer photos, and behind-the-scenes commentary and backstory on
each issue from Holmstrom. It’s not just the history of the
magazine...it conjures up the spirit of an era. — Vanity Fair
“If you’re a punk fan, I’d say this hardcover is pretty essential
to your collection.” — USA Today's Pop Candy
“While the thought of a hardcover, slick-papered, coffee-table
book anthologizing the decidedly low-rent, ragtag Punk magazine
might seem the antithesis of punk, even a curmudgeon like Johnny
Rotten would have to spit a gob in appreciation of the nicely
done result.” — Houston Press
“The Best of Punk is a funny, visually-stimulating time
commemorating the first music periodical of its kind: A
subversive, savvy, often-imitated street-intellectual art
showcase for punk rock purveyors at the dawn of the Eighties.” —
Examiner.com
“Though it only existed from 1976-1980, Punk Magazine captured
the zeitgeist of New York’s punk music scene as it emerged from a
few ramshackle clubs (most notably CBGB’s and Max’s Kansas City)
to the national and international stage.” — Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
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From the Back Cover
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Launched in 1976, Punk magazine announced an exploding youth
movement, a new direction in American counterculture. Punk was to
magazines what the stage at CBGB was to music: the gritty,
live-wired, throbbing center of the punk universe. Despite its
low-rent origins, the mag was an overnight success in the
underground music scene, selling out every print run across the
US and UK. Every musician who appeared on the cover of Punk
became an icon of the era. But Punk not only championed music, it
became a launching pad for writers, artists, cartoonists, and
graphic designers. And the wacky, sardonic, slapstick vibe of the
magazine resonated with an international army of music fanatics
who were ready to burn their bell bottoms and stage-dive into the
punk universe.
The Best of Punk Magazine collects the best of these pages into
the ultimate, must-have anthology:
* Interviews with the Ramones, Sex Pistols, John Cale and Brian
Eno
* Photos by Roberta Bayley David Godlis, and Bob Gruen
* Cartoons by R. Crumb, Bobby London, and John Holmstrom
* The articles that formed the groundwork for Please Kill Me, the
legendary oral history of punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
* Two "graphic novels"—The Legend of Nick Detroit and Mutant
Monster Beach Party—told through photographs featuring Debbie
Harry, Joey Ramone, Richard Hell, Andy Warhol, Peter Wolf, and
David Johansen
The Best of Punk Magazine is a must-have for people who love punk
rock music, comics, fanzines, Blondie, the Ramones, Lou Reed, the
Velvet Underground, the Sex Pistols, and the legendary CBGB
scene.
About the Author
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John Holmstrom is a cartoonist and writer and co-founder (with
Legs McNeil) of Punk magazine. He illustrated the covers of the
Ramones albums Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin, and created the
characters Bosko and Joe, which were published in Scholastic's
Bananas magazine from 1975-1984, as well as in Stop! Magazine,
Comical Funnies, Twist, and High Times. Holmstrom's work and
unmistakable artistic style has become the key visual
representation of the Punk era.
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