Document and Eyewitness by Neil Taylor and Shadowplayers by James Nice | Book review

Two biographies of independent rock labels take John Harris back to a time when popular music mingled with ideologyOne of the more overlooked figures in the subculture that swirled around punk rock was a sometime resident of Cambridge named Jolyean McFie. By the late 1970s, he was in charge of a self-explanatory enterprise called Better Badges, who supplied their wares to a range of rock groups, including Blondie and Joy Division. At 30-odd years' distance, it would be easy to think of him as a ...

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