Backstage & Beyond Vol. 2: 45 Years of Modern Rock Chats & Rants

Backstage & Beyond Vol. 2: 45 Years of Modern Rock Chats & Rants

Jim Sullivan — a 2023 inductee into the New England Music Hall of Fame — spent 26 years writing for the Boston Globe and two decades more writing for national publications. He has interviewed and reviewed countless musicians, many of them multiple times. The second volume of Backstage & Beyond , his music-writing anthology, focuses on artists who came to prominence in the 1970s and ’80s: punk, new wave, post-punk and beyond. Eleven of them are already in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Chapters on: The Ramones - The Sex Pistols / Public Image Ltd. - The Clash - Patti Smith - Buzzcocks - The Damned - The Fall - Joy Division / New Order - The Cure - Stiff Little Fingers - Gang of Four - The Pogues - The Police - The Cramps - David Byrne / Talking Heads - Beastie Boys - Elvis Costello - Billy Bragg - The Cars - English Beat - Morrissey - Pixies - Mission of Burma - Feelies - Puff Daddy - Spiritualized - Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Swans - U2