Jon Savage real name Jonathan Sage (born 1953) is a writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his award winning history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, England's Dreaming (1991). 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Sex Pistols were an iconic and highly influential English punk rock band, formed in London in 1975. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

Savage wrote and published a fanzine called London's Outrage in 1976, and in 1977 began working as a journalist for Sounds. Sounds was, at that time, one of the UK's three major music papers, along with the New Musical Express and Melody Maker. Savage interviewed punk, New Wave and electronic music artists for Sounds until 1979, when he moved to Melody Maker, and then in 1980 to the newly founded pop culture magazine The Face. A fanzine (see also: zine) is a nonprofessional publication produced by fans of a particular subject for the pleasure of others who share their interest. ... Sounds was a British music magazine, published weekly from October 10, 1970 – April 6, 1991. ... The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a weekly magazine about popular music published in the UK. It is unlike many other popular music magazines due to its intended focus on guitar-based music and indie rock bands, instead of mainstream pop acts. ... Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was (until its closure) the worlds oldest weekly music newspaper. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... Influential British magazine The Face was started in May 1980 by Nick Logan out of his publishing house Wagadon. ...

Throughout the 1980s, Savage wrote for The Observer and the New Statesman, providing high-brow commentary on popular culture. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ...

England's Dreaming, published by Faber in 1991, was lauded as the definitive history of punk music, and remains the single most comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon. It was used as the basis for a television programme, "Punk and the Pistols", shown on BBC2 in 1995, and an updated edition in 2001 featured a new introduction which made mention of the Pistols' 1996 reunion and the release of the 2000 Pistols documentary film, The Filth and The Fury. Faber may refer to: The Latin word meaning smith, forger or maker, as in Homo faber, whence: Homo faber (novel), a 1957 work by Max Frisch A character in Ray Bradburys science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, who creates a listening device Faber and Faber (also known as Faber and... BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and... The Filth and the Fury is a reference to a headline featured on British tabloid paper the Sun after an interview on BBC Televisions Today with Bill Grundy; Siouxsie Sioux (of Banshees fame) was a 17 year old groupie who was on the show with the drunken Pistols when...

Savage continues to write on punk and other genres in a variety of publications, most notably Mojo magazine and the Observer Music Monthly. He wrote the introduction to Mitch Ikeda's Forever Delayed (2002), an official photobook of the Manic Street Preachers. Mojo is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. ... The Observer Music Monthly (or OMM) is a respected monthly music magazine found in the British Sunday newspaper The Observer. ... It has been suggested that Jenny Watkins-Isnardi be merged into this article or section. ...

Savage has appeared in the documentaries Live Forever and NewOrderStory.

Several compilation CDs based on his tracklistings have also been released, including England's Dreaming (2004) and Meridian 1970 (2005), the latter of which puts forward the argument that 1970 was a high-point for popular music, contrary to critical opinion. His most recent compilation has been Queer Noises 1961-1978 (2006), a compilation of largely overlooked pop songs from that period that carried overt or coded gay messages. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Jon Savage's latest book, Teenage, was published by Chatto and Windus in April 2007. Chatto and Windus has been, since 1987, an imprint of Random House, the publishers. ...

External links

• Interview
• England's Dreaming Archive Papers held at Liverpool John Moores University