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A Monumental Visual & Historical Punk Archive

 

Anarchy In The Studio: Punk Music

1970-1979

The Rise of Punk Rock

 

Hardcover Edition

+Limited Edition Slipcase 

+Slipcase Edition w/168-page Interview Book

  Author: Tim Stegall

 

Foreword by Laura Jane Grace

 

ISBN: 9798218458669

Dimensions: 11.5x 3.5x 11.5 inches

512 Pages

Over 200+ Photos

Formats:

Hardcover

Limited Special Slipcase Edition

Limited Edition Slipcase Edition with 168-page Interview Book

 

Release Date: 17 March 2026

 

"This book is written to be heard - an instant library of rock 'n' roll canon-fire at 33 1/3 from a revolutionary decade still wreaking the right havoc. Even if you loved these records at the time, you don't know all of this richly reported chaos. Everyone else: Your future starts here - loud and fast."  –David Fricke, MOJO/Sirius XM Radio/former Senior Editor, Rolling Stone Magazine

''Brother Tim shows an enthusiasm in his stories that mirrors the energy of the music and artists he writes about. Colorful, direct, never overbearing, and at a fast pace, which is just how the words should be!"  – Keith Morris, Black Flag/Circle Jerks/OFF!

“Tim is the real deal – a screaming, snarling, spiky encyclopedia of punk. This book is essential reading for all fans of anti-establishment music history.”  –Bob Mould, Hüsker Dü/Sugar

“Tim has performed the Herculean task of describing the messy, sweeping history of punk told in more than 140 of the genre’s most vital recordings of the 1970s. Guaranteed to be a fascinating read (and song list) for every counterculturist and music freak.”  –Penelope Houston, The Avengers

“Tim Stegall is one of those crazy writers (like me) who are so committed to rock 'n' roll, punk rock, and their history that he deserves your attention and respect. So check this out! Ya might learn something.”  –John Holmstrom, PUNK Magazine 

"The revolutionary spirit of the first punk era is alive in the pages of this book, just when we need it!  More than enough deep detail here to re-ignite those who were there, and plenty of high octane inspiration to kick start those who will bring the next phase."   –Deniz Tek, Radio Birdman

“If art is the salve to the universal wound, music is the IV infusion best used to abate the trauma of birth and the isolation of being ‘other.’ Tim Stegall not only fully understands this dictum, but burrows into the root of what makes music, especially punk, relevant. Master archivist, fanboy fanatic, and damn good documentarian, you either get it or you don’t. But if you want it–this book has it all.” –Lydia Lunch

Book Description

 

Punk rock did not begin in New York City in 1975, any more than it started in London in 1976. Punk was a spontaneous eruption of fans of a handful of outsider American rock ‘n’ roll bands — The Velvet Underground, MC5, The Stooges, New York Dolls — forming the band they heard in their heads, because they were not hearing it in the outside world. They happened virtually simultaneously, before the groundswell became unignorable: Ramones, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell in NYC; Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Damned in London; Buzzcocks in Manchester; The Saints in Brisbane, Australia; Radio Birdman in Sydney, Australia. Whether by Legs McNeil at Punk Magazine or Caroline Coon at England’s Melody Maker, the music got branded with the name Creem writer Lester Bangs coined for what’s now known as ‘60s garage: “punk rock.”

Anarchy In The Studio: Punk Music 1970-1979 —The Rise Of Punk Rock is veteran punk journalist/historian/musician Tim Stegall’s comprehensive ‘70s punk history. Based on a selection of over 140 of the best punk albums from the ‘70s, Anarchy In The Studio is the rare punk book that is not regional in focus. The early protopunk era not only takes in the aforementioned American influences such as The Stooges and the Dolls, but English forerunners such as Third World War, Pink Fairies, Mott The Hoople, and The Hollywood Brats. All of the biggest names of the ‘70s are here: Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Dead Boys, Richard Hell and The Voidoids, The Damned, The Slits, Buzzcocks, Generation X. Equal attention is given to regional heroes such as X, DMZ, The Weirdos, Pure Hell, Death, The Nuns, The Bags, Avengers, and The Dils.

D.O.A., Teenage Head, The Diodes, and The Dishrags roared outta Canada, one of the best yet most criminally unsung punk scenes in the world. Australia is given special recognition via The Saints, Radio Birdman, Victims, and Boys Next Door, predecessors of The Birthday Party. Art-punks and post-punks such as Suicide, DEVO, Screamers, Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, and Public Image Ltd. and The Pop Group are given their due, as well as idiosyncratic acts such as Chrome, Metal Urbain and The Cramps. Hardcore’s earliest rumblings filter in through the first chords struck by Middle Class, Black Flag, D.O.A., Bad Brains, and the Germs. 

Chock full of inside tales, origin stories, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and little-known facts, Anarchy In The Studio details the organic rise of DIY culture, spawning punk rock/fashion/media/literature/record labels/more. Beginning with MC5’s Back In The USA and The Stooges’ Fun House in 1970 and ending with The Clash’s London Calling and The Pretenders’ self-titled debut in 1979, Anarchy In The Studio tells the story of punk rock, 12 inches at a time.

OVER 200+ PHOTOS

FEATURING ICONIC & RARE EARLY PUNK PHOTOGRAPHY BY

Ralph Alfonso, Roberta Bayley, Robert Baxter, Adrian Boot, Alison Braun, Don Denton, Danny Fields, Frank Gargani, Philip Grey, Bob Gruen, Rikki Ercoli, GODLIS, Theresa Kereakes, Jenny Lens, Peter Milne, Sam Mumenthaler, Mike Murphy, Anastasia Pantsios, Jonathan Postal, Ruby Ray, Ebet Roberts, Chester Simpson, Dawn Wirth, Michele Zalopany, and many more.

 

SOME PHOTOS NOT SEEN IN PRINT SINCE THE 1970s

 

 PLUS- AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BOOK (168 PAGES) — LIMITED TO 500 COPIES

Included in the Premiere Slipcase Edition only

 

This separate fanzine-style interview anthology features 30+ brand-new or newly compiled interviews with the architects of the 1970s punk explosion. These conversations have NEVER appeared together in a single volume — making this a primary-source document that will not be reprinted.

 

Includes interviews with:

Alice Bag, Bob “Derwood” Andrews, Brian James, Chip Kinman, Cyril Jordan, Danny Fields, Dave Parsons, Deniz Tek, Ed Kuepper, Gerald Casale, Glen Matlock, James Williamson, Jake Burns, Javier Escovedo, Joan Jett, John Lydon, Kid Congo Powers, Lenny Kaye, Mark Perry, Martin Rev, Matt Dangerfield, Mickey Bradley, Mike Patton, Patti Smith, Penelope Houston, Richard Hell, Richard Lloyd, Ronn Spencer, Steve Diggle, Terry Stamp, The Dishrags, Wayne Kramer, and Wreckless Eric.

Three Bundle Options For Anarchy:

 

1) OVERSIZED HARDCOVER EDITION

512 pages

Oversized 11.5 x 11.5” format at 7 pounds

200+ photographs from the best early punk photographers

Global punk history covering 1970–1979

140+ essential albums analyzed in depth

Foreword by Laura Jane Grace

Printed on high-quality coated stock

As close to a Taschen-style book on punk rock as you'll get

 

2) LIMITED SLIPCASE EDITION — ONLY 500 COPIES TO BE PRODUCED

Includes the oversized 11.5 x 11.5, 500+ page hardcover book, PLUS:

Premium slipcase featuring exclusive cover art

Front: Frank Gargani’s legendary photo of The Germs at the Hong Kong Cafe.

Back: Mike Murphy’s iconic shot of Dennis Denney of The Weirdos at the Stardust Ballroom.

3) PREMIERE LIMITED SLIPCASE EDITION + 168-PAGE INTERVIEW BOOK- LIMITED TO ONLY 500 SETS WORLDWIDE

Includes the oversized 11.5 x 11.5, 500+ page hardcover book

The limited-edition slipcase featuring legendary photos from Frank Gargani and Mike Murphy

PLUS:

The 168-page interview book featuring brand-new and newly compiled interviews with over 30 original artists from the 1970s punk era.

Only 500 of these interview books are being printed.

 

About The Author

Tim Stegall is an Austin-based music journalist, author, editor, and punk historian whose work spans four decades of documenting rock 'n' roll's most volatile underground. Since 1985, he has written for Flipside, Maximum Rocknroll, Your Flesh, Alternative Press, The Austin Chronicle, The San Antonio Express-News, Ugly Things, and PUNK Magazine, bringing deep archival knowledge and firsthand perspective to the music's evolving mythology.

He has penned liner notes for landmark releases by The Heartbreakers, Iggy Pop & James Williamson, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (earning a Grammy consideration for Best Liner Notes), the New York Dolls, Red Rockers, The Undead, and others, and has contributed editorial work to books including Punk: The Illustrated History of a Music Revolution by Adrian Boot and Chris Salewicz (Copy Editor), and Phoenix: A Memoir by Steve Davis (Editor). 

His Substack, The Tim "Napalm" Stegall Substack at: (https://timnapalmstegall.substack.com), continues his mission of chronicling punk's past, present, and its culture's aftershocks through essays, interviews, deep-dives into research, and an unapologetic attitude. A punk rock musician since the mid-'80s, he has led his "fundamentalist punk band", The Hormones, since 1986, carrying the spirit he writes about onto stages for nearly forty years. 

Anarchy In The Studio: Punk Music 1970-1979, The Rise of Punk Rock builds on decades of firsthand reporting, reflecting a life spent inside the music it chronicles.

 

About The Designer

Paul Palmer-Edwards is an acclaimed book designer, writer and artist, living in the UK. During his early career in the 1970s he was responsible for once making coffee for Brian Eno as well as creating artworks for album covers and music ads. Throughout the 1980s and 90s he performed with various bands and despite being voted second-best on Gary Crowley's Demo Clash, ultimately fame proved to be elusive. In 2000 he co-founded, what went on to become, a successful London design company that specialised in publishing, of which he was a Director for 20 years. He has received industry recognition for his book designs, including International Society of Typographic Design, ‘Certificates of Excellence’ for Cosmos (Quercus) and The Art of Punk (Omnibus Press) and his work has been published in various design manuals, including Grids (Ava Acedemia), Logotype (Laurence King) and Diagrams (Rotovision). He designed Ramones At 40 (Sterling), The Art of Metal (Voyageur Press), The Art of Jazz (Imagine Publishing Inc), The Art of The Blues (University of Chicago Press), The Blues: A Visual History (Schiffer Publishing Ltd), he is the designer and co-author of The Art of British Rock (Frances Lincoln) and his books have been awarded numerous accolades, including 'Best Non-Fiction Lifestyle Book' at the British Book Awards and 'Drink Book of the Year' (twice) at The Fortnum & Mason Book Awards.