Seven Years of Plenty: Handbook of Irrefutable Pop Greatness, 1991-98 (Non-mint)

Ben Thompson

Softcover | 13 x 7 x 19.8 cm | 288 pp

Orion Publishing | 1999 | 9780753808542

Ben Thompson's Seven Years of Plenty celebrates the whole fractured, glorious, idiosyncratic spectrum of turn-of-the-century pop life. From Liam Gallagher's spit to Björk Gudmundsdóttir's polish, from the murky beginnings of Britpop to the grisly end of Kurt Cobain, and from the back of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's minibus to the top of a jungle pirate's Bethnal Green tower block. 

First published in 1998, Thompson charts the development of pop music from the time when guitar bands were the singularly dominant force to the advent of sampling and digital technology. The book features profiles of, and interviews with, leading lights such as Portishead, Tricky, Pulp, Blur, Goldie, the Aphex Twin among others.'Subjective... trenchant. . . unsettling' The Face

'Hilarious... delightfully arbitrary...little short of brilliant' The Times

'Seamlessly affectionate and deceptively exhaustive hugely readable, cheeky and intelligent' The Wire

'The thrust and brio are irresistible and splutteringly funny... corking' Q

'The kick-start for some of the best pub arguments you'll never have' GO

'Wonderful... bursts with lucid and intelligent enthusiasm...I think we can say that Ben Thompson has produced the most exciting, illuminating and funny book about pop music since, shall we say, Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces?' Guardian

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