The Story Of Crass

Description

In-depth interviews with the main movers in the punk rock movement—Crass

members Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant—detail the face of

the revolution founded by these radical thinkers and artists. When punk

ruled the waves, Crass waived the rules by putting out their own records,

films, and magazines and setting up a series of situationist pranks that

were dutifully covered by the world’s press. Not just another iconoclastic

band, Crass was a musical, social, and political phenomenon: commune

dwellers that were rarely photographed and remained contemptuous of

conventional pop stardom. As detailed in this history, their members

explored and finally exhausted the possibilities of punk-led anarchy. This

definitive biography of the band not only gives backstage access to their

lives, philosophies, and the movement that followed, but also to never-

before-seen photographs and rare dialogues.