Jon Savage

The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late ’50s reached boiling point. In the worlds of pop, pop art, fashion and radical politics — often fueled by perception-enhancing substances and literature — the ‘Sixties’, as we have […]

Jon Savage’s Ralph Gleason Award-winning England’s Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s. Full of anedcote, insight, and exclusive interviews, it tells the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid decline of the last great rock’n’roll band and the cultural moment they came to […]

An incredible visual collection of the personal writings of musical icon Ian Curtis. So this is permanence, edited by Jon Savage with a foreword by Deborah Curtis, presents the intensely personal…..