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- For others with a similar name, see John Savage.
Jon Savage (born 1953), real name Jonathon Sage, is a Cambridge-educated writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his award winning history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, England's Dreaming, published in 1991.
as a high-profile writer during the glory days of British punk and wrote articles on all the major punk acts.
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- For others with a similar name, see John Savage.
Jon Savage (born 1953), real name Jonathon Sage, is a Cambridge-educated writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his award winning history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, England's Dreaming, published in 1991.
Career
He was a high-profile writer during the glory days of British punk and wrote articles on all the major punk acts. Savage wrote and published a fanzine called London's Outrage in 1976, and in 1977 began working as a journalist for Sounds. Sounds was, at that time, one of the UK's three major music papers, along with the New Musical Express and Melody Maker. Savage interviewed punk, New Wave and electronic music artists for Sounds until 1979, when he moved to Melody Maker, and then in 1980 to the newly founded pop culture magazine The Face.
Throughout the 1980s, Savage wrote for The Observer and the New Statesman, providing high-brow commentary on popular culture.
In 1991, Savage designed a record sleeve for the (then little-known) Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers. The single was called "Feminine Is Beautiful".
England's Dreaming, published by Faber and Faber in 1991, was lauded as the definitive history of punk music, and remains the single most comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon.
Savage continues to write on punk and other genres in a variety of publications, most notably Mojo magazine and The Observer Music Monthly. He wrote the introduction to Mitch Ikeda's Forever Delayed (2002), an official photobook of the Manic Street Preachers.
Savage has appeared in the documentaries Live Forever and NewOrderStory.
Several compilation CDs based on his tracklistings have also been released, including England's Dreaming (2004) and Meridian 1970 (2005), the latter of which puts forward the argument that 1970 was a high-point for popular music, contrary to critical opinion. His most recent compilation has been Queer Noises 1961-1978 (2006), a compilation of largely overlooked pop songs from that period that carried overt or coded gay messages.
Jon Savage's latest book, Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture, was published in 2007. It is a history of the concept of teenagers, which begins in the 1870s and ends in 1945. Teenage aims to tell the story of youth culture's prehistory, and dates the advent of today's form of "teenagers" to 1945.
Works
- The Kinks: The Official Biography Publisher: London, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1984 ISBN 9780571133796
- England's Dreaming Sex Pistols and Punk Rock Publisher: London, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1991 ISBN 9780571139750
- Picture Post Idols Publisher: London, Collins & Brown, 1992 ISBN 9781855850835
- The Faber Book of Pop (edited with Hanif Kureishi) Publisher: London, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1995 ISBN 9780571179800
- Time Travel: From the Sex Pistols to Nirvana - Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1977-96 Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1996 ISBN 9780701163600
- Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture Publisher: Viking Books, 2007 ISBN 9780670038374
- Joy Division documentary film, screenwriter, 2008
Music compilations
- England's Dreaming (Trikont 2004)
- Meridian 1970 (Forever Heavenly 2005)
- Queer Noises - From the Closet to the Charts (Trikont 2006)
- Dreams come true -classic wave electro 1982-8799- (Domino Records 2008)
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