From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-punk History for the Post-punk World Book

Trade Paperback with 384 pages - "A detailed re-creation of what it was like to smash the state of rock & roll in the seventies...Written with a critic's eye and a fan's heart." Lenny Kaye, guitarist in the Patti Smith Group - The Ramones. Suicide. Pere Ubu. From the Velvets to the Voidoids explores the origins and evolution of the fiery phase of rock & roll history known as punk and New Wave. Journey through the life of this intense and influential musical movement, from punk scene's new York roots in the mid-1960s with The Velvet Underground, through the 1970's and groups like the mid-1960s and ultimately to such bands as the Talking Heads. Heylin upends notions that this new music evolved in Britain, establishing authoritatively that roots were distinctly American: only later would the music develop into its more popular English incarnation.