PUNK ROCK - 100 NIGHTS AT THE ROXY - Photo Book

	£		88
	$		116

I am clearing out years of accumulated possessions from my parent’s attic to give them some extra storage space and this has unearthed plenty of vintage items. Problem is that I do not have much room to store many of these, so most items, including this, will have to go. Other more recent purchases also need clearing from my garage as I want to see my car and get it back on the road.

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PUNK ROCK - 100 NIGHTS AT THE ROXY

A Collection of Black & White Photographs

In 1976 Punk Rock was rejected by the music industry, the media and established venues. Despite this on 1st January 1977 THE ROXY CLUB, LONDON WC2, opened exclusively for Punk Rock. The Roxy Club became the focal point of this new phenomenon. In its short intense existence the club featured every available Punk band. Then on 23rd April 1977 the club changed hands. But not before the spirit had been captured.

This covers the early bands including THE DAMNED, THE ADVERTS, THE SLITS, WIRE, SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, , THE CLASH, PENETRATION, BUZZCOCKS, X-RAY SPEX, JOHNNY MOPED…..

This was published in 1978 by Big O Publishing Limited and is copyrighted to Michael Dempsey (the then manager for THE ADVERTS who is no longer with us). It is a First Edition (only edition to my knowledge) measuring approx 29.5 x 21 cm this books pages are un-numbered so as I don’t wish to count them I would estimate about 100 sides. It has excellent atmospheric photos of all your favourites both on stage and in the audiences. Text is limited to some band names and performance dates under some of the photos. Nice colour section of some of the gig flyers (possibly all of them).

Offered in a very good to excellent condition, this book has been read (or rather looked at) 'with care'. Cover is slightly kinked on the rear bottom but this should be capable of being pressed out (either with a careful iron or a tight book shelf). Some of the pages are no longer attached to the spine of the book but please note that this is due to the books construction. It features heavy pages that are inadequately glued to the spine. At the time this was the best copy I could find and was all fully intact but many brand new copies already had many loose pages while still in the shop for sale.  Inside the pages are very clean, crisp and very almost mint.

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