No Future

No Feelings’, ‘No Fun’, ‘No Future’. The years 1976 to 1984 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude, and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment and socio-economic change, punk rejuvenated and re-energised British youth culture, inserting marginal voices and political ideas into pop. Rejecting both tired clichés and nostalgic myths, Matt Worley provides the definitive account of how punk was constructed and utilised from the ground up. He takes youth culture seriously as a way of understanding history, demonstrating how punk not only reflected but directly impacted social and political history through its unique ability to provoke, disrupt, and subvert. This updated anniversary edition of No Future marks fifty years since the birth of punk and includes a new foreword from writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic, Paul Morley. It remains the foremost history of British punk.

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Paul Morley has written about music, art, and entertainment since the 1970s. He wrote for the New Musical Express from 1976 to 1983 and formed the Zang Tumb Tuum record label with record producer Trevor Horn. A founding member of the Art of Noise, he collaborated with Grace Jones on her memoirs and is the author of a number of books about music including The Age of Bowie (a Sunday Times bestseller), and a biography of Bob Dylan, You Lose Yourself, You Reappear. His latest book is called Love Magic Power Danger Bliss: Yoko Ono and the Avant-Garde Diaspora.

Cathi Unsworth is a novelist and writer. She began her career on the legendary music weekly Sounds at the age of 19 and has worked as a writer and editor for many other music, film and arts magazines since, including The Guardian, Financial Times, Bizarre, Melody Maker, Mojo, and Uncut. She is the author of many books including Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth and Defying Gravity: Jordan’s Story.