1984: The Year Pop Went Queer
18 July 2024Imprint: Nine Eight Books
Synopsis
'MAGNIFICENT!' CAITLIN MORAN
'A riveting read about a pop revolution hiding in plain sight' PETE PAPHIDES
'Very funny and very moving' JUDE ROGERS
In 1984, pop came out of the closet - even if not all of the artists felt that they could - and, in the process, charted the course of the rest of the decade.
In 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer,...
'A riveting read about a pop revolution hiding in plain sight' PETE PAPHIDES
'Very funny and very moving' JUDE ROGERS
In 1984, pop came out of the closet - even if not all of the artists felt that they could - and, in the process, charted the course of the rest of the decade.
In 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer,...
Details
18 July 2024320 pages
9781785120817Imprint: Nine Eight Books
Reviews
'MAGNIFICENT! A Poppers O'Clock ode to one of pop's most pivotal and best dressed year'Caitlin Moran
'A riveting read about a pop revolution hiding in plain sight'Pete Paphides
'Plenty of predictions were made about 1984, but one thing no one foresaw was that it would turn out to be the year of British pop's coming-out party. Ian Wade is the perfect guide to a lost pop world more complex and fraught than nostalgia allows, an era simultaneously more exciting and more depressing than our own'Alexis Petridis
'Very funny and very moving, a whirlwind tour around a remarkable year by the lovely Ian - a guide alive with the spirit of Smash Hits, and lashings of LGBTQ+ pride and rage'Jude Rogers