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title: "The Best of Punk Magazine"
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# Interviews galore 300+ pages Rare artwork The Best of Punk Magazine

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**Price:** € 83.80
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## Summary

> 🎸 Get your punk fix and join the revolution!

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- **How much does it cost?** € 83.80 with free shipping
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## Key Features

- • **Join the Movement:** Be part of the punk legacy and culture.
- • **Art That Speaks Volumes:** Explore rare artwork that defines a generation.
- • **Unleash Your Inner Rebel:** Dive into 300+ pages of punk history!
- • **Voices of the Underground:** Engaging interviews with punk legends.
- • **Curated for the Connoisseur:** A must-have for every punk aficionado.

## Overview

The Best of Punk Magazine is a comprehensive collection featuring over 300 pages of iconic punk culture, including rare artwork and exclusive interviews with legendary artists, making it an essential addition for any punk enthusiast.

## Description

Product Description          The very best of Punk—the legendary magazine thatdefined an era—finds new life in this stunning anthology, featuring originalarticles along with behind-the-scenes commentary and the backstory on eachissue as told by editor-in-chief John Holmstrom. Punkwas the Bible of the urban counterculture movement. It not only gave punkmusic its name, but influenced the East Village art scene and steered the punkaesthetic and attitude. The Best of Punk Magazine includes high-qualityreprints of hard-to-find original issues, as well as rare and unseen photos,essays, interviews, and even handwritten contributions from the likes of AndyWarhol, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Lester Bangs,Legs McNeil, Lenny Kaye, and many more. For collectors, lifelong punks, andthose just discovering what punk is all about, this is the chance see thehistory of the movement come back to life.             Review          “This coffee-table book cherry-picks from the archive: a Patti Smith Q&A, a carton strip (with real photos) starring Lester Bangs, and a two-page centerfold of Debbie Harry, who’s billed as ‘Punk Playmate of the Month.’” — Rolling Stone, 4 Star ReviewThe anthology is packed tighter than CBGB in the 70s on a Saturday night, with incredible interviews...art, comics, rants, killer photos, and behind-the-scenes commentary and backstory on each issue from Holmstrom. It’s not just the history of the magazine...it conjures up the spirit of an era. — Vanity Fair“If you’re a punk fan, I’d say this hardcover is pretty essential to your collection.” — USA Today's Pop Candy“While the thought of a hardcover, slick-papered, coffee-table book anthologizing the decidedly low-rent, ragtag Punk magazine might seem the antithesis of punk, even a curmudgeon like Johnny Rotten would have to spit a gob in appreciation of the nicely done result.” — Houston Press“The Best of Punk is a funny, visually-stimulating time capsule commemorating the first music periodical of its kind: A subversive, savvy, often-imitated street-intellectual art showcase for punk rock purveyors at the dawn of the Eighties.” — Examiner.com“Though it only existed from 1976-1980, Punk Magazine captured the zeitgeist of New York’s punk music scene as it emerged from a few ramshackle clubs (most notably CBGB’s and Max’s Kansas City) to the national and international stage.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)             
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                 From the Back Cover          Launched in 1976, Punk magazine announced an exploding youth movement, a new direction in American counterculture. Punk was to magazines what the stage at CBGB was to music: the gritty, live-wired, throbbing center of the punk universe. Despite its low-rent origins, the mag was an overnight success in the underground music scene, selling out every print run across the US and UK. Every musician who appeared on the cover of Punk became an icon of the era. But Punk not only championed music, it became a launching pad for writers, artists, cartoonists, and graphic designers. And the wacky, sardonic, slapstick vibe of the magazine resonated with an international army of music fanatics who were ready to burn their bell bottoms and stage-dive into the punk universe.The Best of Punk Magazine collects the best of these pages into the ultimate, must-have anthology:Interviews with the Ramones, Sex Pistols, John Cale and Brian EnoPhotos by Roberta Bayley David Godlis, and Bob GruenCartoons by R. Crumb, Bobby London, and John HolmstromThe articles that formed the groundwork for Please Kill Me, the legendary oral history of punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCainTwo "graphic novels"—The Legend of Nick Detroit and Mutant Monster Beach Party—told through photographs featuring Debbie Harry, Joey Ramone, Richard Hell, Andy Warhol, Peter Wolf, and David JohansenThe Best of Punk Magazine is a must-have for people who love punk rock music, comics, fanzines, Blondie, the Ramones, Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground, the Sex Pistols, and the legendary CBGB scene.             About the Author          John Holmstrom is a cartoonist and writer and co-founder (with Legs McNeil) of Punk magazine. He illustrated the covers of the Ramones albums Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin, and created the characters Bosko and Joe, which were published in Scholastic's Bananas magazine from 1975-1984, as well as in Stop! Magazine, Comical Funnies, Twist, and High Times. Holmstrom's work and unmistakable artistic style has become the key visual representation of the Punk era.            See more

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great gift
  

*by A***H on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 27 September 2022*

Bought as a gift my dad loves it

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Bought for a friend
  

*by K***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 4 December 2021*

And he loved it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An excellent 'best of'
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 June 2017*

An excellent 'best of'. If you were into this scene it's a superb reminder of the fun and frolics of the Mid- late 1970s and if you were not, it's a great piece of social/music/fanzine/ history. John Holmstrom and the founders of PUNK magazine did a great job then and Holmstrom has done a great job in capturing the heart and soul of this seminal and influential mag. Go buy and give yourself a treat.

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