The New Wave years (1978 - 1983)
From 1978 to 1983, in a truly astonishing mix of ideas and audacity, music experienced one of its most dizzying accelerations. The punk movement had been scrapped, it had to be rebuilt. Then, in a thousand internal movements, in a thousand telluric tremors, the New Wave profoundly reshaped the landscape. Opening wide highways to the future. Whether in denial of its era with electro-pop or the neo-romantics, in the confrontation against its gray time with Joy Division. Whether it lived in its head with The Cure or in the streets with The Clash, it was as much a research laboratory as an unlimited party. Constantly on the move, it thus served as a link between the radical avant-gardes and the party-goers of disco or nascent hip-hop.
Thus, the journalist JD Beauvallet even went to live with her in Manchester at the beginning of the eighties. He remembers it in this personal book, which selects the unmissable records, tirelessly compiles his playlists, tells the important cities of this revolution and meets the important artists or actors of these few years still influential.
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- Jean Daniel Beauvallet is THE specialist journalist of NEW WAVE (ex. editor-in-chief of Les Inrocks)
- Preface by Jehnny Beth (from the group SAVAGES + host of the show 'Echoes' on ARTE)
- + 10 Major Interviews (Mick Jones, Peter Hook, Morissey, Echo&The Bunnymen...)
- Photos by Kevin Cummins - the only iconic English photographer of the New Wave. Featuring: Joy Division, The Cure, Echo&The Bunnymen...
- JD Beauvallet is the author of the book “Le Passeur” which has sold more than 7,000 copies.
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