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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)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- April 30, 2005
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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 ...