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The Day The Country Died – A History Of Anarcho Punk 1980 -1984 by Ian Glasper & published by Cherry Red Books is Glasper’s second book in a trilogy of books exploring the landscape of a so-called “second wave” of punk rock that took hold in throughout the UK in the early 1980s.
The Day [...]

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When asked ‘Is there something you would like Nirvana to be remembered for?’ Kurt Cobain answered: “Writing good music, good songs. That’s all I could say, because that’s more important than anything else”.
The majority of books written about Nirvana concentrate in part or wholly on Kurt Cobain’s inner turmoil and his trouble with dealing with [...]

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In 1980 Bruce Springsteen released his most commercially successful album to date.  ‘The River’ was a double-album that received both critical acclaim and more commercial success.  Springsteen was at the peak of his career. So his record label was very keen to release his next album and build on the commercial success of one of [...]

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In 1991 Kurt Cobain was quoted as saying: “I don’t think we’ll get that big. Our music isn’t that commercial.”
Twenty years after Kurt Cobain’s tragic suicide the Nirvana’s popularity has not waned. Their meteoric rise to fame as part of the ‘Grunge’ movement was due to the commercial success of their classic second album, Never [...]

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In January 1982, Bruce Springsteen, then thirty two years old and an established rock star, recorded a set of demos in his New Jersey bedroom for what was intended to be his follow up to The River, a double album issued in 1980 which had reached the top of the US Billboard.
All parties involved had [...]

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