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  • Formaat: Hardback, 384 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 216x140x27 mm, kaal: 532 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026
  • Kirjastus: Manchester University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1526191784
  • ISBN-13: 9781526191786
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 384 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 216x140x27 mm, kaal: 532 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026
  • Kirjastus: Manchester University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1526191784
  • ISBN-13: 9781526191786
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John Robb has been at the forefront of musical culture since the 1980s. In this compelling memoir, he looks back on a life lived through and for music.

The irresistible story of a one-man cultural phenomenon.

Minister for the Counterculture, Mancunian mainstay and alternative national treasure John Robb has lived a life in music. In this book he charts his adventures on the cultural frontline, chronicling the making of a DIY icon.

Robb’s quest began in his hometown of Blackpool – where punk was a battle against the odds – and went international when he toured the world with his band. The first person to interview Nirvana, he also discovered The Stone Roses for weekly newspaper Sounds and did early interviews with The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Manics, before moving on to legends such as Mark E. Smith, Nick Cave and Patti Smith. Along the way, he became an on-screen commentator and author of bestselling books.

Robb’s memoir tells of deep friendships with figures from Poly Styrene to Chris Packham. Packed with riotous stories, it provides an alternative account of British musical and cultural history and a triumphant blueprint for a punk rock life.

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A searcher and a true believer in the magic and power of music. Part of the Manchester music skyline and Ill fight anyone who tells me Im wrong. If you know, you know Noel Gallagher, musician

John Robb writes about music and culture with the insight of someone who loves it from the outside and lives it from the inside. Johnny Marr, musician

Punk rock may have ruined John Robb's life, but his writings have been like oxygen to me ever since he started. A case of his pain, our gain and I'm forever grateful. This is a treasure trove of bands found and lost, wracked geniuses, greasy gigs, rumbles and fumbles and moments of bliss. Punk may have ruined one of John's lives, but he has lived many. All power to him! Ian Rankin, novelist

John Robb. OG. Mary Anne Hobbs, DJ and journalist

Clever, witty, eloquent and so weird he's like the brother I never had. Chris Packham, broadcaster

John Robb puts into words how transformative punk rock can be for entire generations of small-town artists and outsiders. Thank God it ruined all our lives. Behold the Gospel according to John Robb, who intentionally sacrificed his life at the altar of punk rock. Holly Ross, musician

John Robb is beyond a Punk Potpourri. Musician, journalist, spoken wordsmith like as sharp as a northern steely sword! This book is an essential read for anyone that punk touched and fifty years later, John, the real truth is it made yr life! Gavin Friday, musician

John Robb has been a witness to some of the greatest cultural moments of our time. This book is filled with touching humanity, sharp humour and jaw-dropping episodes from a turbulent, tartan-braided life of art, music and pop culture. Aideen Barry, artist -- .

Preface: the universe explodes into a billion photons of pure white
light
1 Life, death and the scary bits in between
2 Ghosts of ancient relatives on the high seas
3 Alien kid: my swinging sixties
4 Tower power! Blackpool by the sea
5 Spaceships! The moon landing
6 Wounded bull in Victorian England: school daze/cruel ways
7 Wigwam bam thank U glam (confessions of a teenage pop nerd)
8 Riot squad for Toxic City FC: tower power and nutters that come from the
sea
9 Wake up! Wake up! Youre already dead: inky fingers and the music press
10 In 1977 we finally get to heaven
11 Fighting in the dancehalls: punk adventures in a seaside town
12 Revolting into style! Cut and paste culture
13 Songs of love and fury: the Membranes
14 Entertaining friends: our first gigs
15 Xerox machine: fanzines and a missive from couch potato command
16 Get a head: the Membranes get going
17 If you enter the arena, you've got to be prepared to deal with the lions
18 Hey! When the sun goes down! Manchester calling
19 Twenty-four-hour drinking at northern prices! Moving to the fort by the
breast-shaped hill
20 Death to trad rock
21 The world acclaims the eternal protein men! How to survive being a bunch
of cults
22 Beyond God and Elvis: 1987 and searching for the new thing
23 Everyones going triple bad acid yeah! Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr. in my garden

24 The day my universe changed: there is acid in the house
25 When I get to heaven: adventures on the music frontline
26 Blind faith: blissing in action in the early nineties
27 Post detergent vacuum cleaner man: adventures into sound
28 Home turf: Goldblade bring the punk rock soul power
29 Goldblade drop the bomb
30 Do you believe in the power of rocknroll?
31 R U ready for the twenty-first century?
32 End of the century!
33 All we got are punk rock rebel songs: Goldblade bring the noise
34 Dream the vicious dream: oh what a tangled web we weave
35 Borders blurred: the visa campaign
36 Justice!
37 All roads lead to the palace of wisdom
38 Fangs for the memory: the fall guy, or, how I was bitten by the elastic
man
39 Dark Matter/Dark Energy: the Membranes take a trip into outer space
40 New blood for young skulls: a new generation is still louder than war!
41 Someone stole my brain: words are my weapons and music is the glue
42 Breath in/breathe out: enter the green dragons, green populism and the
sixth great extinction
43 What nature gives nature takes away, or, where do you go after you have
been across the universe?
44 Feel my disease: the great plague
45 Fastest man alive: the roaring twenties
46 In the city of future ghosts
Index -- .
John Robb is a writer and musician. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Live Forever: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis (2025) and The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth (2023). He is the founder of the culture site Louder Than War, plays bass with the band The Membranes and contributes a column to Viva!life Magazine, published by the Vegan campaigning charity Viva! -- .