Earthbound: The Bakerloo Line

Paul Morley, author, journalist and cultural commentator, tells the story of post-punk, music and changing times — part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground.

'Bakerloo Brown is carpet colour, corduroy colour, cow colour, fake tan. It's not chocolate square — there's something flavourless about it. Actually, it's earth colour.' In Earthbound , Paul Morley uses the Bakerloo line to tell the story of post-punk, the NME, his first Sony Walkman and the curious history of a little-known German group called 'Can', meditating on memory, music, taste, technology and the things that connect us.

Critic and cultural theorist Paul Morley has written books about music history, Joy Division , suicide, the moog synthesiser and the north of England. A contributor to numerous publications from the Face to the Financial Times , a founding member of the Art of Noise, he appears regularly on BBC 2's The Review Show and has presented radio and television documentaries on many subjects including Brian Eno, boredom, the recording studio and Anthony Burgess. He uses an unregistered Oyster Card.

• Author
• Paul Morley

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 137

• Series
• Penguin Lines – Celebrate 150 years of the London Underground

• Publisher
• Penguin

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-1-84614-645-9

• EAN
• 9781846146459

• Genres
• music, biography, essays

• Release date
• 2013