Books

Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture, by Jon Savage

The book which is the basis for our film, Teenage is “the definitive history of youth in revolt, from the gaslight age to the dawn of rock.” -David Fricke, Rolling Stone

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The Sex Pistols are the core of this definitive history of the punk rock and pop culture movements of the 1970s. “The best book about punk rock and pop culture ever.” – New Musical Express

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In The England’s Dreaming Tapes Savage makes available for the first time the full, uncut, sensational story behind the cultural moment that was punk with transcripts of 58 interviews.

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A collection of essays on pop music, including pieces on The Clash, The Sex Pistols, David Bowie and Nirvana. The book offers an account of youth, hatred, androgyny, sexual experimentation, drugs, America, and Englishness.

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Linder Sterling and Jon Savage: Punk Montages, Photography and Collages 1976-1981. A limited edition catalog of original artwork from the seminal fanzine “The Secret Public.”

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Jon Savage’s first book, The Kinks: The Official Biography, tells the full story behind some of the most timeless pop songs ever written and the group that created them.

Films

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Wild Combination is director Matt Wolf’s visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell.  ”Moving… something unusually marvelous.” – Guardian

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From director Grant Gee and writer Jon Savage, Joy Division chronicles a time of great social and political change in England and tells the untold story of four men who transcended economic and cultural barriers to produce an enduring musical legacy.

Music

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This compilation by Jon Savage tells the story of youth culture, one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, through songs from 1911 to 1946.

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This 25-track compilation of essential punk and post-punk tracks is a musical companion to author John Savage’s acclaimed book of the same name.

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Black Hole is a compilation by Jon Savage celebrating the first wave of California Punk that briefly flourished between 1976 and 1980.