Backstage & beyond. Volume 2, 45 years of modern rock chats & rants
(Book)

"The second volume of his music-writing anthology, Backstage & Beyond, focuses on artists who came to prominence in the 1970s and '80s: punk, new wave, post-punk and beyond. Eleven of them are already in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Chapters on: Ramones, Sex Pistols, Clash, Patti Smith, Buzzcocks, Damned, Fall, Joy Division / New Order, Cure, Stiff Little Fingers, Gang of Four, Pogues, Police, Cramps, David Byrne / Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, Elvis Costello, Billy Bragg, Cars, English Beat, Morrissey, Pixies, Mission of Burma, Feelies, Puff Daddy, Spiritualized, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Swans and U2"--Barnes&Noble website

"Jim Sullivan spent 26 years writing for the Boston Globe and two decades more writing for national publications. He has interviewed and reviewed countless musicians, many of them multiple times. The second volume of Backstage & Beyond, his music-writing anthology, focuses on artists who came to prominence in the 1970s and '80s: punk, new wave, post-punk and beyond. Eleven of them are already in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame." --,amazon.com.