Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics | 
pickIf you‘re a Gen-Xer who loved British music in the ‘80s, then you‘ll love this book. If you love music & history, you‘ll love this book for connecting the dots among David Bowie, Roxy Music, disco, punk, the availability of synths & all music that followed. It‘s amazing that fewer than about 50 people transformed so much in music, fashion, publishing and design for the future — all from a drive to carve a better life for themselves.
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Dylan Jones is the former editor of i-D - who was there in and amongst the New Romantic scene at the time. This makes him ideally placed to write this - using the voices of people who were there, through new interviews with him and previous ones. This is a chunky old book - and is occasionally a little bit too in depth - but by the end I felt like I really understood the scene and the characters in it.
I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 2 #bookstoread #TBRpile
