Book_Art_Blog — 1980s
Book Review: Bedsit Land: The Strange Worlds of Soft Cell by Patrick Clarke (British Pop Archive No. 1, Manchester University Press)
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Nobody who listens to Soft Cell could be in any doubt that their upbringings in Northern seaside towns, the art school years in Leeds, and then later on the shift to London and time in the then-deeply hedonistic New York, stamped an indelible mark on both the men and their music. This book explains exactly how and why that was, via witness testimony and well-known history.
Book Review: Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth (Bonnier, 2023)
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As a testament to the lasting legacy of Goth, this book has never been bettered. Cathi’s taken a large chunk of history – much of this readers of this book are likely to already know the nuts and bolts of – and weaved it into a contemporary narrative.