Disgusted with Britain’s ‘cruel’ aristocracy, Michael Zilkha left to champion a generation of party-starting punk-funk bands. As he returns as a book publisher, he remembers that wild scene
. This extraordinary memoir details her troubled path to forming the first gay all-girl band, the Bloods, and playing in early Ze signing James Chance and the Contortions.“It’s been kinda similar to what happened with the record label,” Zilkha says with a smile. “Once I signed the Contortions, I had a track record, so I was able to sign Suicide, or Lydia. But I was only able to sign the Contortions because nobody wanted them.
After graduating from university, he left the country. “I stopped feeling English when I got to Oxford,” says Zilkha. “However warm people were, I felt an undercurrent of antisemitism and, having been unhappy since the age of 12, I wanted to start again in an immigrant city. The British, and particularly their aristocracy, are fundamentally cruel in their humour. I also felt life would have been too circumscribed had I remained.
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