Gang of Four's Entertainment! bowie part manifesto

part manifesto

Nobody can tell the story like Rob Sheffield

brought Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds their biggest critical and commercial success

" Riveting" — New York Post

Originally published in 1988 and out of print for decades

Gang of Four's Entertainment! bowie part manifestoFollowing hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life. But for an American college student from the suburbs and, one expects, for many, many others,