Tag Archives: 1977
Boy About Town Number 36: Jamming
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. Once I got over the disappointing realisation that In the City had not been an...
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June 30, 2014
Boy About Town Number 37: Do Anything You Wanna Do
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. Sounds was the music paper of choice for us third years. Not Melody Maker, which...
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June 13, 2014
Boy About Town Number 38: Away From The Numbers
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. Most punk rock songs assumed that we had all been hardened by our upbringings, that...
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June 6, 2014
Boy About Town Number 39: 1977
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. Every week, another group emerged, singing another message of teenage insurgence. Eddie and the Hot...
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May 30, 2014
Boy ABout Town Number 40: All Around The World
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. Best of all, ‘All Around the World’ was singing about the new while saying we...
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May 23, 2014
Boy About Town Number 41: When I Need You
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. Only then did it properly dawn on me that in my enthusiasm for Cindy, I...
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May 16, 2014
Boy About Town Number 42: Something Better Change
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. I was gutted. Events like this didn’t happen in Britain. Sure, there were outrageous chants...
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May 9, 2014
Back To Brass Tacks: Punk Rock 1977
For those of you who were either too young at the time, or didn’t live in the UK, or both, and have had difficulty understanding the enormous cultural/generation gap I...
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January 9, 2014