| ’77 Sulphate Strip, Ovolo Publishing’s flagship music title about the year of ’punk’ is ’Book of the Week’ in all Zavvi stores (formerly Virgin Megastores) week commencing 31st March 2008.
Zavvi is the UK’s largest independent entertainment retailer on the high street and their focus is purely on the great products they offer.
If you were reading about punk in 1977 the chances are you read some of Barry Cain’s words. As a young writer on Record Mirror he was perfectly placed to take part in, and report on, the punk scene. What makes this book truly great and stands out from the rest is how it connects the past to the present. In the words of Phil Singleton, sex-pistols.net ’The Punk Rock book of the year is yours, Mr Cain, and ours to share.’
"When I wrote ’77 Sulphate Strip I honestly never expected it would receive such wonderful reviews and comments. For some, it seems to have touched a guitar string of a nerve that hasn’t been plucked for three decades; for others, it has simply confirmed that 1977 was the most dynamic and groundbreaking year in rock ’n’ roll history. I’m particularly thrilled that so many people who were just twinkles in roving eyes thirty years ago have derived such satisfaction from wandering through the Sulphate land of the damned and the desperate, alien yet strangely familiar, like a virulent dose of déjà vu.
The fact that Zavvi have made it one of their Books of the Week is a tremendous honour. It really is a dream come true and I’d like to thank The Sex Pistols, The Stranglers, The Clash, The Damned and The Jam for helping me realise it, not to mention Johnnny Thunder and his fabulous Heartbreakers. Oh, and that innate Zavvi savvy!" Says author Barry Cain.
’77 Sulphate Strip is his eyewitness account of the year and features behind-the-scenes stories of how the year unfolded – by a player at the centre of the vortex. It started for Cain when he interviewed the Sex Pistols at EMI the day before the Bill Grundy appearance on Thames TV. The book also features interviews with The Stranglers, The Clash, The Damned, The Ramones, The Vibrators, The Tubes, The Jam, Blondie, X-Ray Spex, Buzzcocks, The Boys, Sham 69, The Drones, XTC, Television, Generation X, The Heartbreakers, Alternative TV, Ian Dury, Radiators From Space.
The book doesn’t end with the eyewitness account of 1977. Thirty years on, Cain re-interviewed John Lydon, Hugh Cornwell and Rat Scabies exclusively for the book. These extended interviews run for more than 100 pages and rise above being mere nostalgia. By asking Lydon, Cornwell and Scabies to comment on the original interviews Cain manages to coax unique insights from each of them.
"To be ’Book of the Week’ in all Zavvi stores for our first music title is fantastic news. We have had some great reader reviews, which have led to the media and book/music shops supporting Barry in making sure the book gets out there. Alongside Zavvi’s ’Book of the Week’, Barry Cain will be holding a book reading at the ’Punk Poster Exhibition’ at Filthy Macnasty’s bar in London on 3rd April 2008. It will be a great event with live music and will be a chance to get everyone together to say thanks for supporting ’77 Sulphate Strip." Says Ovolo Publishing Ltd Marketing Manager, Michelle Thorn.
’77 Sulphate Strip is packed with insights, anecdotes and great stories. Open it at any page and start reading and we guarantee you’ll be hooked!
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