England's Dreaming, de Jon Savage

"The sacking of his (Winston Churchill) statue might well have served to obscure the global nature of the urgent demonstration at hand, but it also served to reintroduce the spectre of Punk as the burgeois demon, the harbinger of the anarchist apocalypse..."

"The Union Jack is the symbol of the political union between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is far from being an equal partnership. England, and the South East in particular, dominates the economy, class system and perception of these islands."

"The most revealing moments of the whole fracas came during a BBC Panorama special report: for the (football) fans profiled, the fact that Britain had won the war was justification enough for their behaviour. 'If it wasn't for England you'd be Krauts', they shouted in Amsterdam."

"Yet it was this very Churchillian myth that, thirty years after VE Day, Punk set out to challenge across a broad front: England had not won the war but lost . There was no longer the cushion of empire, just dreams of historic glories..."

"Punk insisted on living in a hyper intensive present, but now it's history - just another english dream."

England's Dreaming é o retrato de uma falhada revolução (como todas as revoluções) juvenil e um notável retrato sócio-cultural da Inglaterra de finais da década de 70, a vida urbana entre a realidade de uma crise económica sem precedentes com taxas de desemprego brutais e a fantasia alimentada pelo circo mediático à volta do Jubileu de Isabel II.

Da autoria de Jon Savage, em tempos colaborador da Sounds, New Musical Express e Face. Actualmente publica na Mojo Magazine e The Observer Music Monthly. Autor de vários outros livros sobre a música popular contemporânea e a cultura juvenil, dos quais destaco a colectânea de crónicas: Time Travel: From the Sex Pistols to Nirvana - Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1977-96.