Name: Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics
Brand: Dylan Jones

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9780571353446

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Paperback

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Limited edition

Release date

2021-09-16

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Dylan Jones

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Music

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Faber and Faber

The definitive history of the Blitz Kids, Synth-Pop and the Style Press from 1975 to 1985

Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of post-punk and developed quickly alongside club culture, ska, electronica, and goth.

One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era had a huge influence on the growth of print and broadcast media, and was arguably one of the most bohemian environments of the late twentieth century. Not only did it visually define the decade, it was the catalyst for the Second British Invasion, when the US charts would be colonised by British pop music - Depeche Mode, Culture Club, Wham!, Soft Cell, Ultravox, Duran Duran, Sade, Spandau Ballet, the Eurythmics and many more - making it one of the most powerful cultural exports since the Beatles

For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this.

Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics

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