Jon Savage
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Music journalist , broadcaster, writer |
Jon Savage (born 2 September 1953
Career
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In 1979 he moved to Melody Maker, and a year later to the newly founded pop culture magazine
In July 1993, Kurt Cobain gave a dramatically candid interview to Jon Savage in which he freely discussed such controversial topics as Courtney Love, homosexuality, heroin and Cobain's relationship with his Nirvana bandmates.
Savage's book, Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture, was published in 2007. It is a history of the concept of
In 2015, he published 1966, recalling the popular music and cultural turmoil of that year. He also compiled and wrote the liner notes for a two-disc companion CD, Jon Savage's 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded (Ace Records). As of 2023, he continues to write on punk and other genres in a variety of publications, most notably
Several compilation CDs based on his track lists have also been released, including England's Dreaming (2004) and Meridian 1970 (2005), the latter of which puts forward the argument that 1970 was a high-point for popular music, contrary to critical opinion. He curated the compilation Queer Noises 1961–1978 (2006), a collection of largely overlooked pop songs from that period that carried overt or coded gay messages. His most recent compilations have included the now deleted Fame, Jon Savage's Secret History Of Post-Punk 78–81 on Caroline True Records. His latest curated[when?] release on the same label is Perfect Motion, Jon Savage's Secret History Of Second Wave Psychedelia 1988–1993. Also a limited double-vinyl release, this collection posited late eighties/early nineties "Baggy" music as a slight return to the ethos of 60s psychedelia.
Selected bibliography
Books
- Savage, Jon (1984). The Kinks: the official biography. London: Faber.
- England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock (Faber and Faber, 1991, ISBN 978-0-571-13975-0)
- Picture Post Idols Publisher: London, Collins & Brown, 1992 ISBN 978-1-85585-083-5
- The Hacienda Must Be Built (International Music Publications, 1992, ISBN 978-0-86359-857-9)
- The Faber Book of Pop (edited with ISBN 978-0-571-17980-0)
- ISBN 0-571-17445-0)
- Time Travel: From the Sex Pistols to Nirvana – Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1977–96 Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1996 ISBN 978-0-7011-6360-0
- Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture Publisher: Viking Books, 2007 ISBN 978-0-670-03837-4
- 1 Top Class Manager: The Notebooks of Joy Division's Manager, 1978–1980 (Anti-Archivists)
- The England's Dreaming Tapes (University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
- Jon Savage/Linder Sterling: The Secret Public (Boo-Hooray Gallery, 2010)
- Sex Pistols and Punk (Faber and Faber 2012) ISBN 978-0-571-29654-5)
- Punk: Chaos to Couture (2013)[6]
- Frohman, Jesse (2014). Kurt Cobain: The Last Session. Contributions by Jon Savage and Glenn O'Brien. London: Thames & Hudson.
- 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded. London: Faber & Faber. 2015. ISBN 978-0-571-27762-9.
- This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division (Faber and Faber 2019) ISBN 978-0-571-34537-3
Articles
- Savage, Jon (June 1997). "Psychedelia: The 100 Greatest Classics". Mojo. No. 43.
- Savage, Jon (December 2014). "Kurt Cobain's Last Photo Session and Interview, 1993: Part 1 'Very like the Sex Pistols'". Mojo. No. 253. pp. 30–31.
Screenplays
- Joy Division documentary film, screenwriter, 2008[7]
Discography
- England's Dreaming (Trikont2004)
- Meridian 1970 (Forever Heavenly 2005)
- Queer Noises – From the Closet to the Charts (Trikont 2006)[8]
- The Shadows of Love – Intense Tamla 1966–1968 (Commercial Marketing 2006)
- Dreams Come True – Classic Wave Electro 1982–87 (Domino Records 2008)
- Teenage – The Invention of Youth 1911–1945 (Trikont 2009)
- Fame – Jon Savage's Secret History of Post Punk 1978–81 (Caroline True Records 2012)
- Perfect Motion- Jon Savage's Secret History of Second-Wave Psychedelia 1988-93 (Caroline True Records 2015)
- Punk 45: Sick on You! One Way Spit! (2014)
- Jon Savage's 1965: The Year the Sixties Ignited (Ace Records 2018)
- Jon Savage's 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded (Ace Records 2015)
- Jon Savage's 1967 ~ The Year Pop Divided (Ace Records 2017)
- Jon Savage's 1968 ~ The Year the World Burned (Ace Records 2018)
- Jon Savage's 1969-1971 ~ Rock Dreams on 45 (Ace Records 2019)
- Do You Have The Force? -Jon Savage's Alternate History Of Electronica 1978-82 (Caroline True Records 2020)
References
- ^ "Jon Savage, born 1953". Rough Trade Recordse. Retrieved 7 October 2023
- ^ Richie Unterberger, "Jon Savage: Biography", AllMusic (accessed 18 July 2018).
- ^ "Tripos: Mathematics, History, Art History, Classics", Times, 25 June 1975.
- ^ "Smash the State". Entertainment Weekly. 27 March 1992.
- ^ "The Kids Are—Yawn—Alright". New York. 2007.
- ^ J. C. Maçek III (6 June 2013). "Fashionably Anti-Establishment: 'Punk: From Chaos to Couture'". PopMatters.
- ^ Savage, Jon (16 March 2008). "Unseen pleasures". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ "Queer Noises: From the Closet to the Charts 1961-1978". New Internationalist. 2 December 2006.
External links
- 2002 interview
- 2007 interview
- England's Dreaming Archive Papers held at Liverpool John Moores University
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