''The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'' is a novel by Michael Moorcock published in 1980.

Plot summary

''The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'' is a novel in which

Jerry Cornelius Jerry Cornelius is a fictional character created by English author Michael Moorcock. The character is an urban adventurer and an incarnation of the author's Eternal Champion concept. Cornelius is a hipster of ambiguous and occasionally polymorphous ...

and the

Sex Pistols The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975. Although their initial career lasted just two and a half years, they were one of the most groundbreaking acts in the history of popular music. They were responsible for ...

cause anarchy in the U.K.

Reception

Greg Costikyan Greg Costikyan (born July 22, 1959, in New York City), sometimes known under the pseudonym "Designer X", is an American game designer and science fiction writer. Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant genres of gaming, including: hex-based wa ...

reviewed ''The Great Rock n Roll Swindle'' in '' Ares Magazine'' #12 and commented that "There are some amusing moments in ''Swindle'' ..especially when Bakunin and the Ukrainian anarchist Makhno criticize the hedonistic decadence of what punkers claim is 'anarchy.'"

Reviews

*Review by Richard E. Geis (1980) in

Science Fiction Review Richard E. Geis (July 19, 1927 – February 4, 2013) was an American science fiction fan and writer, and erotica writer, from Portland, Oregon, who won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1982 and 1983; and whose science fiction fanzine ...

, August 1980 *Review by Joseph Nicholas (1981) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 4, Number 5

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Great Rock n Roll Swindle 1980 British novels Novels by Michael Moorcock Virgin Books books