Original Rockers

Author: Richard King

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Price : 24.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780571311804
Publisher : Faber & Faber, Limited
Imprint : Faber & Faber, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.204117
Publication date : 01 August 2016
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 24.99
Availability date : 01 July 2016
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Product Type : books

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Author : Richard King
Bind : Paperback
Edition : Main
Pages : 256
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9780571311804

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A Times, Rough Trade and Uncut Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2015.

Original Rockers is a clear-eyed yet romantic account of the several years that Richard King spent working behind the counter at Bristol's Revolver Records -- a business run from the heart rather than the head. King brings that lost environment back to life -- the sounds, the smells and the people -- along with a vivid sense of how it feels to discover taste-shaping records and the artists who created them for the first time. Original Rockers evokes a golden moment in British cultural history, and celebrates the magical abandon that music offers us.

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A wonderful account that recalls the debauched glory days of the independent record shop.