Excerpts from the annual summer music jamboree broadcast as part of UK TV station Channel 4 youth programme The Tube have been posted this week on Youtube.

//Jools Holland interviews McLaren about his “Duck Rocker”, one a number of customised boomboxes McLaren commissioned for promotional appearances//

One clip from the so-called Midsummer Night’s Tube of 1983 features an interview with Malcolm  McLaren about his recently released album Duck Rock and single Double Dutch.

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Tags: Channel 4, Dave Walker, Double Dutch, Duck Rock, Duck Rocker, Jools Holland, Ruza "Kool Lady" Blue, The Midsummer Night's Tube, The Roxy, The Tube

I have an essay in the Stone Island monograph Storia which is published today by Rizzoli Books.

Edited by Eugene Rabkin of StyleZeitgeist and art-directed by the supreme Simon Foxton, Storia is an extremely handsome volume featuring texts by Angelo Flaccavento and Jian Deleon, as well as my piece, From The Streets To The Stadium, which traces the Italian label’s place in popular culture.

Storia is available from all good booksellers – a special edition has been published in a slipcase with a poster.

This is available from Stone Island stores around the world, but hurry; within a few hours of publication I’ve been hearing tales that it has sold out in certain territories.

Photos of book by Sabrina Tanzi.

Tags: Angelo Flaccavento, Eugene Rabkin, Jian Deleon, Sabrina Tanzi, Simon Foxton, Stone Island, StyleZeitgeist