Soundtrack for the Seventies [Essay]
[Hard Copy Edition]
de Chris Green
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The portrayal of the seventies as a parade of Chopper bikes, space hoppers, cheerfully racist sitcoms, long hair, platform boots and lunatic flared fashion set in a mindless boogie wonderland of ‘Dancing Queen’ and ‘Stayin’ Alive’ has been relentless. Misrepresentation has been allowed to become undeniable fact. But that wasn’t Chris Green’s seventies. His seventies was about trying to survive in a new grammar school, church hall discos, power cuts, pubs with names like The Wheel of Fortune and The Peacock, Colt 45, Paddington and Waterloo, The Roxy and The Vortex, Yamaha FS1E’s and Vauxhall Viva’s, signing on, wanton racism, sexism and homophobia, the permanent threat of violence, bedsitland and wasteland waiting to be car parks. But more than anything it was about the songs of T. Rex, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Sly Stone, The O’Jays, The Wailers, Cockney Rebel, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Kraftwerk, Iggy Pop, Wire, Public Image Ltd, The Slits and countless others as the mixtape playing in his head. Soundtrack for the Seventies is that tape!
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Caractéristiques et détails
- Catégorie principale: Blogs
- Catégories supplémentaires Biographies et mémoires
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Format choisi: 13×20 cm
# de pages: 72 -
ISBN
- Couverture souple: 9781715028930
- Date de publication: juin 10, 2020
- Langue English
- Mots-clés Soundtrack, Seventies
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À propos du créateur
Chris Green was festering away in Reading until Johnny Rotten and punk came along to save his soul. Naively believing that you really could do what you wanted, he wrote for fanzines, promoted groups and ran indie record labels before a handful of ‘proper’ jobs as a postman, binman and waste operations manager. Currently a middle-aged listener, thinker, writer and man of leisure addicted to MotoGP, Premier League football and doing proper ‘fuck all’, he recently moved to the small village of Charminster near Dorchester, Dorset with his wife Claire and his conscience.