Document and Eyewitness, 9781409135586
Paperback
Indie music’s heart: Rough Trade’s story told by those who lived it.

Document and Eyewitness

an intimate history of rough trade

$48.30

  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    11 June 2012

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Summary

Rough Trade: Document and Eyewitness - The Definitive Story

Rough Trade is synonymous with independent music’s history. The Rough Trade Story: Document and Eyewitness unveils the influential record label’s journey from the inside, featuring voices like Geoff Travis, Jarvis Cocker, Robert Wyatt, Green Gartside, and many more.

From Cabaret Voltaire, Kleenex, and Swell Maps to The Fall, The Smiths, and Scritti Pollitti, and through the collective’s collapse and rebirth…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781409135586
ISBN-10:1409135586
Author:Neil Taylor
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Orion
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:11 June 2012
Weight:410g
Dimensions:214mm x 140mm x 32mm
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Critics Review

An essential purchase for anyone who was involved in or influenced by the punk maelstrom of 1976, a riveting evocation of a period in musical history that becomes more important the further we get away from it … Taylor’s book is a joy * INDEPENDENT *Long overdue…The type of reader that buys rock biographies will crave the detailed information that spans the late 1970s to 1991 - and they will not be disappointed * RECORD COLLECTOR *DOCUMENT AND EYEWITNESS’ treatment of its main players is affectionate-going-hagiographical, but the implication of that end-point is inescapable. The journey from the mid-1970s to now denotes the arrival of an altogether duller world: music that tends to be reverential rather than iconoclastic * GUARDIAN *

About The Author

Neil Taylor

Neil Taylor worked for the NME during the mid-1980s and has more recently worked in publishing. He is a dedicated regionalist.

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