Jon Savage (born 2 September 1953 in Paddington, London) is an English writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his definitive history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, England’s Dreaming (1991).
Books in order of publication:
The Kinks: the official biography. London: Faber. (1984)
England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock (Faber and Faber, 1991
Picture Post Idols Publisher: London, Collins & Brown, 1992
The Hacienda Must Be Built (International Music Publications, 1992
The Faber Book of Pop (edited with Hanif Kureishi) (Faber and Faber, 1995
Touching From a Distance (Foreword) (Faber and Faber, 1995
Time Travel: From the Sex Pistols to Nirvana – Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1977–96 Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1996
Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture Publisher: Viking Books, 2007
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)
Punk: Chaos to Couture (2013)
Kurt Cobain: The Last Session. Contributions by Jon Savage and Glenn O’Brien. London: Thames & Hudson. – 2014
1966: The Year the Decade Exploded. London: Faber & Faber. 2015. .
This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division (Faber and Faber 2019)
The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture – 2024
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