Jon Savage

Jon Savage has been writing about music since the '70s, when he started an early punk fanzine, London's Outrage. He hasn't issued many music books, but one of these, England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, is one of the best rock genre histories. This qualifies Savage as one of the leading punk experts, but in fact he's pretty knowledgeable about many sectors of rock history, and his writing about music is constantly appearing in publications, although full-length volumes have been infrequent. Raised in West London, Savage graduated from Cambridge University in 1975, s...