Article: BOOKS : Unsung Eighties bands at the heart of a musical revolution; Rip it up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84, by Simon Reynolds, Faber, pounds 16.99.(Features)

Byline: Reviewed by Neil Connor

Ask most people about 1980s music and they will often keel over with visions of George Michael clicking his figures and shaking his shoulders in a Choose Life T-shirt.

Those student Eighties nights have a lot to answer for. If the DJ forgets his New Order and Smiths tunes then it is a night of Bros, Abba and Johnny Hates Jazz.

But Simon Reynolds' book shows that, particularly throughout the early 1980s, there was a ...

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