This book is a comprehensive collection of his best pieces: from early work on T
he Clash, The Sex Pistols and David Bowie, to pieces on Suede, Blur and Nirvana.
More than just a ragbag of journalism, it gives a sweeping and trenchant accoun
t of changing fashions in style and musical taste, and of the issues which pop m
usic raises: youth, hatred, adrogyny, sexual experimentation, drugs, America, En
glishness.