Alex Ogg

Winston Smith

Ruby Ray

Despite releasing records only on independent labels and receiving virtually no radio play, Dead Kennedys routinely top both critic and fan polls as the greatest punk band of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Their sound was inventive and tetchy, and front man Jello Biafra’s lyrics were incisive and often scathing. This chronicle—the first in-depth book written about Dead Kennedys—uses dozens of firsthand interviews, photos, and original artwork to offer a new perspective on a group that was mired in controversy almost from its inception. It examines and applauds the band’s key role in transforming punk rhetoric, both polemical and musical, into something genuinely threatening and enormously funny. Author Alex Ogg puts the local and global trajectory of punk into context and, while not flinching from the wildly differing takes the individual band members have on the evolution of the band, attempts to be celebratory—if not uncritical.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables: The Early Years

Dead Kennedys

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Act Like Nothing's Wrong

This book is the author's voice raised against the ‘groupthink’ Soviet-style cult of personality that surrounds the Queen, her heirs and successors. He's calling for an end to the corruption of Queen’s consent, sovereign’s protection and the deals she and her family do behind closed doors. These he calls the 'evil trinity', which the revelation of the Paradise Papers has made four. This book is his chance to open people’s eyes to what goes on and to say don’t allow deference and the best propaganda machine in the world to cloud your vision. "The job of head of state is too important to let hereditary nepotism choose who should hold that post. I want the right to vote for my head of state."

Winston Smith

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