Sick on You The Disastrous Story of Britain's Great Lost Punk Band

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Publisher's Synopsis

**MOJO MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR**

The Hollywood Brats are the greatest band you've never heard of.

Recording one near-perfect punk album in 1974, they were tragically
ahead of their time.

With only a guitar, a tatty copy of the Melody Maker and his template for the perfect band, Andrew Matheson set out, in 1971, to make musical history. His band, The Hollywood Brats, were pre-punk prophets - uncompromising, ultra-thin, wild, untameable and outrageous. But thrown into the crazy world of the 1970s London music scene, the Brats ultimately fell foul of the crooks and heavies that ran it and an industry that just wasn't ready for them.

Directly inspiring the London SS, the Clash, Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols, The Hollywood Brats imploded too soon to share the glory. Punk's answer to Withnail and I, Sick On You is a startling, funny and brilliantly entertaining period memoir about never quite achieving success, despite flying so close to greatness.

Book information

ISBN: 9780091960445
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Imprint: Ebury Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 782.421660922
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 258g
Height: 129mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 24mm