Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop is a 1986 book about 1980s pop by music journalist
Dave Rimmer
Dave Rimmer is a music journalist
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done b ...
. The book compares 1980s
pop bands with the 1970s
punk rock groups that preceded them. The book "...documents the lessons New Pop musicians learned from the punk bands (more artistic control, better business acumen)."
Amazon.com: Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop: Dave Rimmer: Books
/ref> The paperback has 196 pages and it is published by Faber & Faber (
)
References
1986 non-fiction books
Books about pop music
Debut books
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