The definitive oral history of the New Romantics. Sweet Dreams
charts the British cultural explosion that happened in the ten years
from 1975-1985 -- the rise of the New Romantics. Growing out of the
remnants of the post-punk period, the New Romantics introduced club
culture, ska, electronica, and goth to the world.
One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the
era had a huge influence on the growth of broadcast media. Not only did
it visually define the decade, it was the catalyst for the Second
British Invasion, when the US charts would be colonized by British pop
music, making it one of the most powerful cultural exports since the
Beatles.
For fans of Jon Savage's 1966 and Lizzie Goodman's Meet Me in the
Bathroom-- SWEET DREAMS is the fascinating story of how The New
Romantic movement was born in the British clubs of the late 1970s and
flourished on the radio and television airwaves of the early 1980s.
Sweet Dreams were made of this.