London Calling New York New York

Pete Silverton’s passionate voice about music lives ever on in this transatlantic voyage between two seminal ports of rock and roll call and response. Illuminating paired music scenes through their iconic anthems, he reveals similarities and differences with a fan’s ear-witness to the process of creation and how geography affects the geology of rock as it begins to roll. -- Lenny Kaye.
Pete Silverton’s tale of two cities is a masterpiece that you will read right through to the end without putting down. I always knew Pete was a great writer. But I didn’t know he was this good – it’s a masterpiece. -- Chris Salewicz.
Unpacks how Sinatra and The Clash shaped their cities—and how those cities in turn shaped their iconic songs, recorded at the same time but worlds apart… a factual, fun, and fascinating read. -- Don Letts.
Equal parts music biography, personal memoir, autoethnography and psychogeography, London Calling New York New York is ultimately unique. It crackles with the energy that the two eponymous cultural capitals demand of their habitants, yet it maintains a tourist-like inquisitiveness for the various side streets, delivering minute urban details and anecdotes that even this London-raised New Yorker was entirely unaware of. A special book. -- Tony Fletcher.