Typical Girls?: The Story of the Slits
Zoe HoweAuthor Zoe 'Street' Howe speaks to The Slits themselves, to former manager Don Letts, mentor & PIL guitarist Keith Levene & many other friends & colleagues to discover exactly how The Slits phenomenon came about & to celebrate the legacy of a seminal band long overdue its rightful acclaim.
Too long seen as a note in the margin of the history of rock, The Slits at last get a fair hearing in this revealing biography.
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Zoë Howe is an internationally published author, broadcaster, extremely occasional musician & visual artist. Best known as a music biographer & Soho Radio's 'Rock 'n' Roll Witch', her most recent books are The Jam: 1982 (a collaboration with Jam drummer Rick Buckler, out now with Omnibus Press) & the Mind/Body/Spirit title 'Witchful Thinking: The Wise Woman's Handbook To Creating A Charmed Life' (Llewellyn, 2022). Zoë is the co-author of the acclaimed 'Dayglo: The Poly Styrene Story' created with the late X-Ray Spex star's daughter, Celeste Bell, & the pair also collaborated on the award-winning documentary 'Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché', with director Paul Sng.