Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop is a 1986 book about 1980s pop by music journalist Dave Rimmer. The book compares 1980s pop bands with the 1970s punk rock groups that preceded them. The book "...documents the lessons New Pop musicians learned from the punk bands (more artistic control, better business acumen)." The paperback has 196 pages and it is published by Faber & Faber (ISBN 0571137393 ISBN 978-0-571-13739-8)
Famous quotes containing the words punk and/or happened:
“When there’s no future
How can there be sin
We’re the flowers in the dustbin
We’re the poison in your human machine
We’re the future
Your future
God Save the Queen”
—The Sex Pistols, British punk band (1976-1979)
“Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951)