How Soon Is Now? by Richard King - review

A group biography of independent labelsBack when I should have been studying for my O-levels, I, like a lot of earnest teenagers and bedroom bards in the 1980s, spent much of my free time writing and assembling badly photocopied fanzines. They had Latin titles, images plundered from magazines I'd stolen from the local doctor's waiting room, and featured interviews with obscure bands such as the Klaxon 5 (whose "Never Underestimate the Ignorance of the Rich" I'd heard on John Peel's British Force...

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