Table of Contents

Preface TV Smith - The Adverts Introduction 1. Punk In The Beginning 2. Birth Of The Roxy Club 3. 'No Elvis, Beatles Or The Rolling Stones' - Opening Night 4. '12:45 At The Roxy Club' - January To February 1977 5. An Evening At The Roxy Club 6. Thinking Of The USA - American Week 7. Trouble - March 1977 8. The 'Live At The Roxy' Album 9. The End Of An Era - April 1977 10. 100 Days At The Roxy 11. Punks & Teds - May 1977 12. Punk Is Back - May To June 1977 13. July To August 1977 14. Kevin St John - The Guv'nor 15. In Decline - September To October 1977 16. November 17. Christmas & New Year 18. Going Going - January To February 1978 19. The End Of The Roxy - March To April 1978 20. The Scottish Tour 21. The End 22. The Book & The Film 23. Roxy Gigography Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

About the Author

The author Paul Marko runs the Punk Rock website Punk77.co.uk and interviewed some 150 band members and club goers to research the book.

Reviews

"I'm the world's best cynic when it comes to books about British Punk '77, an era which, of course, I consider myself an expert on (I wuz there). So, imagine what it means to me to finally read a good-- make that GREAT -- chronicle of the utterly transfixing experience that was the Roxy. A descent into the black hole that changed music -- hell, the world! -- forever.The sensibility with which this is written, organized, and presented is impressive. Of the many so clunky, error-ridden, and vapid -- THIS account leaps and bounds WAY above the others. INTELLIGENCE and TASTE and BALANCE and GRACE -- whooa doggies!Weaving the reader in and out of the "we were REALLY there" first-hand accounts and spot-on impressions, Paul takes us for a ghost-ride through the hell's-on-fire pathway that led to the razor-cut demise of the Roxy. From my own many nights there, I can assure you that what you find here is accurate and relevant, while other recounts are simply off-base ... missing the Marko, so to speak ...And what a story ... the churning tale of a historical turn that ROCKS but will not roll over and die. It's thirty years later ... but not over.I must congratulate author Paul Marko for doing such a damn fine job of it. Hear, hear!And read, read."Annette Weatherman - Amazon.co.uk"... the book is amazing. The story about Skrewdriver and the Teds is insane. I like the book a lot. It's one hell of a lot of work!"Henry Rollins (Black Flag & Henry Rollins band)"THIS IS A TRULY ASTOUNDING PIECE OF WORK, NO BULLSHIT!!!!!!!The red pen fell out of my mouth as I hit chapter 2 and I spent the next three or so hours with my jaw hanging open...seriously, this book will be up there in the Top 5 punk books of all time (Last Gang In Town, England's Dreaming, Please Kill Me, etc)"Mark Woodley (Sanctuary compiler and contributor to 'Last Gang In Town' Clash Biography)