The definitive oral history of the New Romantics An NME and BBC Culture Book of the Year 2020 Includes an exclusive new chapter For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this. From the testimony of the people who lived it, comes Dylan Jones’ masterful history of the Blitz kids, synth-pop and the style press, from 1975 to 1985. "Dylan Jones explains how a bunch of penniless nightclub show-offs morphed into pop royalty in the 1980s . . . An excitable patchwork of interviews, punctuated with gossip and pertinent theory." ― UNCUT "An absolute must-read." ― GQ "Fascinating." ― New Statesman "Dazzling." ― London Review of Books "It’s all here: the swishing, the androgynous preening, the sweetly-dreamt synth-pop splendour of early ‘80s Britain. Something was happening, and Mr. Jones knew what it was." ― Barney Hoskyns "Compelling reading for those who lived and breathed the indulgence of the era without realizing its significance or contemplating its legacy." ― Simon Armitage Dylan Jones studied at Chelsea School of Art and St. Martin’s School of Art. A former editor at i-D , The Face , Arena , the Observer and the Sunday Times , he is currently the Editor-In-Chief of GQ . He has won the British Society of Magazine Editors “Editor of the Year” award a record eleven times, and in 2013 was the recipient of the Mark Boxer Award. Under his editorship the magazine has won over 50 awards. He is the author of the Sunday Times best-seller David Bowie: A Life , and the New York Times best seller Jim Morrison: Dark Star . A trustee of the Hay Festival, in 2013 he was awarded an OBE for services to publishing.