Walking on the Moon : The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock

by Campion, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780470282403
• ISBN10: 0470282401
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-28
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

British journalist Campion draws on extensive research and new interviews to trace the inside saga of the iconic music group, The Police. Includes 25 bw photographs.

Author Biography

Chris Campion has reported on the world of popular culture- from its center to the extreme edges- for over fifteen years for British publications such as the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, and Bizarre magazine. A former contributing editor to the Dazed & Confused and Vice magazines, he has interviewed superstars, cultural nomads, vagabonds, and outcasts and has reported on subjects as varied as the Norwegian black metal scene, Japanese girl groups, a long-disputed death penalty case in Arkansas, the complicated public life of a celebrity British glamour model, and the cult of personality surrounding a controversial German anatomist.

Table of Contents

Orphans	p. 1
Carpetbaggers	p. 17
Queens of New York	p. 32
Vive le Punk	p. 42
Paging Doctor Rock	p. 54
Welcome to America	p. 70
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Sensational New Blow Waves	p. 87
The Organization	p. 105
Police the World	p. 116
Gimme Shelter	p. 133
The New Wave Crusade	p. 150
Dystopia in Utopia	p. 170
Destabilize, Desynchronize	p. 185
Rock of Charity	p. 207
Classical Gas	p. 231
Recede, Retire, Retread	p. 255
Acknowledgments	p. 273
Photographer Biographies	p. 275
Notes	p. 277
Sources	p. 293
Index	p. 305
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