Englands Dreaming introduced me to the power of urban, sprawling London

Owen Hatherley on Englands Dreaming by Jon Savage, the book that compelled him to move to London to seek out its appalling and vertiginously exciting high-rises At some point in Jon Savages Englands Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, Chrissie Hynde explains why she quit the NME as a music journalist in 1974. She was commissioned to write a piece looking back at the Velvet Underground. Why always looking back? she asked, and went off to work in a situationist fetish shop in Chelsea instead. The...