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Shiny and New

Dylan Jones

The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money new style gender fluidity gay pride attritional politics the 'special relationship' nuclear fear AIDS cocaine ecstasy tabloid royalty the rise of urban pop and ultimately geopolitical chaos. Using a big narrative approach Dylan Jones' history of the decade in pop frames the decade through some of its most important and popular hits choosing records which either epitomised their time or ushered in a new cultural shift. So we move seamlessly from Rapper's Delight and the genre defining moment of hip hop into The Specials' spectral Ghost Town; from ABC and the apotheosis of New Pop (The Look of Love) to Madonna's breakthrough moment with Like a Virgin and so on. In the '80s each year brought a new twist as technology shifted and genres snowballed MTV reigned supreme and the story of pop became globalised. It was a decade of excess in all areas especially ambition but it was in the transcendent moments of pop perfection that the '80s found its true art-form.

Subjective and idiosyncratic SHINY AND NEW takes us from downtown New York to post-industrial Manchester in the first widescreen attempt to weave together the stories the songs and events that re-shaped music and society.

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  • Classification : Music
  • Pub Date : JUL 7, 2022
  • Imprint : White Rabbit
  • Page Extent : 320
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781474620079
  • Price : INR 750
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Dylan Jones

New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Dylan Jones has written or edited over twenty-five books. In the Eighties, he was one of the first editors of i-D, before becoming a Contributing Editor of The Face and Editor of Arena. He spent the next decade working in newspapers - principally the Observer and the Sunday Times - before embarking on a multi-award-winning tenure at GQ. A former columnist for the Guardian and the Independent, he is a Trustee of the Hay Festival, and a peripatetic television producer. In 2012 he was awarded an OBE for services to publishing.

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