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PUNK ROCK PRESS

Michael Grecco’s emblem new e-book, “Punk, Post Punk, New Wave: Onstage, Backstage, In Your Face, 1978–1991” options greater than 160 prior to now unseen pictures from the heyday of the explosive punk rock motion within the United States. Working for the Associated Press in Boston as a photojournalist on the time, Grecco freelanced for native cultural media shops, together with the mythical radio station WBCN-FM. He had a novel alternative to be embedded within this unparalleled scene from the start.

Both a chronicler of and player in this track revolution, Grecco captured in-your-face efficiency moments and behind the scenes pictures with bands together with The Cramps, The Clash, Dead Kennedys, Talking Heads, Human Sexual Response, Adam Ant, Elvis Costello, Joan Jett, The Ramones, and plenty of others. His black and white and colour pictures carry to existence the uncooked power, energy, and anarchy that characterised this unforgettable and rebel track and popular culture phenomenon.

In addition to live performance pictures, Grecco shot album covers and promotional items that spherical out the e-book’s impressively intensive picture assortment. Also that includes a foreword from Fred Schneider of the B-52s and an creation by way of veteran track journalist Jim Sullivan, “Punk, Post Punk, New Wave” is a quintessential piece of track historical past for any individual on the lookout for behind the scenes get admission to into the wild days and nights of punk and submit punk’s maximum infamous bands.

Today, Michael Grecco is likely one of the United States’ main business, mag, and superstar portrait photographers. He says his days within the trenches of black-walled punk golf equipment modified him profoundly and impressed his occupation trajectory.