{"product_id":"the-hacienda-how-not-to-run-a-club","title":"The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club","description":"The acclaimed and wildly outlandish inside account of England’s most notorious music club, The Hacienda, from Peter Hook, the New York Times bestselling author of Unknown Pleasures and co-founder of Joy Division and New Order—a story of music, gangsters, drugs, and violence, available for the first time in the United States.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring the 1980s, The Hacienda would become one of the most famous venues in the history of clubbing—a celebrated cultural watershed alongside Studio 54, CBGBS, and The Whiskey—until its tragic demise.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFounded by New Order and Factory Records, The Hacienda hosted gigs by such legendary acts as the Stone Roses, the Smiths, Bauhaus, Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, and Happy Mondays; gave birth to the “Madchester” scene; became the cathedral for acid house; and laid the tracks for rave culture and today’s electronic dance music. But over the course of its fifteen-year run, “Madchester” descended into “Gunchester” as gangs, drugs, greed, and a hostile police force decimated the dream.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Published: 2010 in UK\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Pages: 368\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 13: 9781471160080\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 10: 1471160084\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peter Hook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43628004049162,"sku":"","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9780241952924_35ac93c0-484c-4d36-a076-9f926a84e6ae.jpg?v=1658050718","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-hacienda-how-not-to-run-a-club","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}