Like Punk Never Happened
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Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop is a 1986 book about 1980s pop by music journalist Dave Rimmer
Dave Rimmer
Dave Rimmer is a music journalist and critic who has written books and articles about a number of pop and rock artists. He wrote for SMASH HITS and FACE in the 1980s, and wrote a book about 1980s pop entitled Like Punk Never Happened. His second book Once Upon a Time in the East, is about Eastern...

. The book compares 1980s pop bands with the 1970s punk rock groups that preceded them. The book "...documents the lessons New Pop musicians learned from the punk bands (more artistic control, better business acumen)." The paperback has 196 pages and it is published by Faber & Faber (ISBN 0571137393
ISBN 978-0571137398)
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