Jon Savage

Cultural commentator and journalist Jon Savage is the author of numerous books on popular culture, including England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock (Faber, 1991), winner of the 1993 Ralph Gleason Award, and Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875–1945 and 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded (Chatto & Windus, 2007) winner of the 2016 Penderyn Music Book Prize. His latest book, This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division, the Oral History (Faber, 2019), was a Sunday Times bestseller.

His new book, The Secret Public (Faber, 2024) was published in June of 2024. It is a searching examination of the fortitude and resilience of the gay community through the lens of popular music and culture; reflecting on the freedom found in divergence from the norm and reminds us of the need to be vigilant against those seeking to roll back the rights of marginalised groups.