Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Introduction: We Weren't Wrong. We Just Found a Thousand Ways Not to be Right 1
Chapter 1 Coca-Cola Whiskey 4
Chapter 2 I'll Make a Mummy Out of You 13
Chapter 3 Les Chaussettes Noires 22
Chapter 4 Junk Science 30
Chapter 5 Right Here, Right Now, and Not Later, Baby 36
Chapter 6 The Ugliest Band from England 44
Chapter 7 Cabaret Pas Normal 54
Chapter 8 The Tom Jones Shirt 64
Chapter 9 Tender Buttons 76
Chapter 10 Learning to Drive Girls Crazy 85
Chapter 11 Truth and Soul Knitwear 93
Chapter 12 Up Your Legs Forever 102
Chapter 13 The Bug-Eyed Sprite 112
Chapter 14 We Have Come for Your Children's Children 118
Chapter 15 Oh Sylvain, I Had So Much Sex in That Loft 127
Chapter 16 Subterranean Flash, Sleazoid Rock 135
Chapter 17 Be Nice to the People on Your Way Up, Cos You'll Meet the Same People on the Way Down 144
Chapter 18 If You Don't Believe Me, Ask the Monkey 155
Chapter 19 Close Your Eyes, COS this is Gonna Hurt 167
Chapter 20 Would You Do This to Elvis? 181
Chapter 21 Black BIBA Lipstick 189
Chapter 22 Y'all Don't Know How to Play, but Y'all Boogie Like Hell 197
Chapter 23 The Power of "We" 210
Chapter 24 The Sex Pistols, They're Your Band 219
Chapter 25 Take no Prisoners 230
Epilogue 238
