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No Way Back (NWB001) brings together long-lost music and subculture journalism, images and perspectives, from 1977 to 1989. It sources from titles ranging from Village Voice and New Statesman to Smash Hits and Sounds.

 

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This is journalism that lets us read about culture in its rawest form.

In-the-moment and before endless layers of post-rationalisation have kicked in.

Breakthrough events in dance music, hip-hop and pop – and parallel shifts in art, design and fashion.

Inspirational, ground-level creativity and enterprise that set the scene(s) for subsequent decades.