Spirit of 76 Retail Deluxe Edition

John Ingham saw The Sex Pistols in April of 1976 and knew punk was the future. A founding writer for the British music paper Sounds, Ingham chronicled the emerging punk movement that ground shaking year and beyond, writing variously for The Observer, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, NME, CREEM, Mojo, Uncut, and a number of anthologies on the subject. Deluxe Edition includes book, slipcover, photo print, and 17 additional pages.
A deluxe edition including a slipcase, photo print, and a sewn-in zine from founding writer for the British music paper Sounds, John Ingham was one of the first photographers to chronicle the emerging punk movement in London.
John Ingham is one of the pioneers who championed Punk and helped change music forever. Writing under the nom-de-typewriter "Jonh Ingham" for the weekly music paper Sounds, he saw and famously conducted the first-ever interview with the Sex Pistols in April 1976.
And so it was that Ingham claimed the first interview with the Pistols - the band that brought punk to London in the summer of 1976 - GQ
Containing the only colour photographs from British punk's first wave alongside Ingham's inimitable prose, this new book constitutes a rare from the trenches report on the UK punk explosion from one of its original participants -Creative Boom