Acme Boy: The Birth of Punk & Anti-Fashion 1975 - 1985...and Other Twisted, True Stories from Pre-Internet Counterculture

PHIL STRONGMAN is an English author and film-maker. He started out as a teenage fashion designer and, decades later, was a clothing consultant on Disney's 2022 punk TV series PISTOL. Phil's own feature-length punk documentary film ANARCHY! McLaren Westwood Gang was critically acclaimed before being broadcast nationwide on Sky Arts TV in 2016 and 2017. His recent documentary films on Ukraine - Kyiv Unbroken and Interview With A Deadman - have also won awards.

His previous books include the best-selling novel Cocaine (Abacus) the nonfiction works Pretty Vacant; A History of UK Punk (Orion / Chicago Review Press) and Metal Box: Stories of John Lydon & PiL (Helper Skelter) plus his two Lennon books; John Lennon & The FBI Files (Sanctuary) and the updated John Lennon: Life, Times & Assassination (Bluecoat). The latter titles now sell as ebooks via Lume.