GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Green Day digest strictly for diehard devotees
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Green Day FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the World’s Most Popular Punk Band
Hank Bordowitz
(Backbeat Books, £15.99)
IT’S somewhat audacious to claim that Green Day inspired “nearly as many bands to pick up instruments as Elvis, The Beatles and the Ramones.” Yet that unsubstantiated assertion is one of many hyperbolic flights in Hank Bordowitz’s book.
The journalist, who’s written for the likes of Playboy and Huffington Post, is an unashamed fan-boy of the punk-pop band. Lauding their working-class roots and their lyrical transition “from pot and poop to politics,” he covers everything you wanted to know about the trio and more besides.
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