Hacienda e-bog
90,41 DKK
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The acclaimed and wildly outlandish inside account of Englands most notorious music club, The Hacienda, from Peter Hook, the New York Times bestselling author of Unknown Pleasures and co-founder of Joy Division and New Ordera story of music, gangsters, drugs, and violence, available for the first time in the United States.During the 1980s, The Hacienda would become one of the most famous venues...
E-bog
90,41 DKK
Forlag
It Books
Udgivet
22 april 2014
Længde
384 sider
Genrer
Popular music
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780062307965
The acclaimed and wildly outlandish inside account of Englands most notorious music club, The Hacienda, from Peter Hook, the New York Times bestselling author of Unknown Pleasures and co-founder of Joy Division and New Ordera story of music, gangsters, drugs, and violence, available for the first time in the United States.During the 1980s, The Hacienda would become one of the most famous venues in the history of clubbinga celebrated cultural watershed alongside Studio 54, CBGBS, and The Whiskeyuntil its tragic demise.Founded by New Order and Factory Records, The Hacienda hosted gigs by such legendary acts as the Stone Roses, the Smiths, Bauhaus, Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, and Happy Mondays; gave birth to the Madchester scene; became the cathedral for acid house; and laid the tracks for rave culture and todays electronic dance music. But over the course of its fifteen-year run, Madchester descended into Gunchester as gangs, drugs, greed, and a hostile police force decimated the dream.Told in Hooks uproarious and uncompromising voice, The Hacienda is a funny, horrifying, and outlandish story of success, idealism, navet, and greedof an incredible time and place that would change the face and sound of modern music.The Hacienda includes 32 photographs in 16-page four-color insert.