Rip It Up & Start Again

BOOK
A new edition of Simon Reynolds' Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music.

Full of anecdotes and insights, and featuring the likes of Joy Division, The Fall, Pere Ubu, PiL and Talking Heads, Rip It Up And Start Again stands as one of the most inspired and inspiring books on popular music ever written