PUNK fanatic Alan Parker is helping the spirit of 1977 continue into the next millennium - co-writing a new Sex Pistols book, helping a 20-year-old band with a planned reunion and managing Blackburn's current punk protagonists.

Alan, of Mill Hill, Blackburn, has helped write a book which claims to be the first Sex Pistols publication approved by all four surviving members of the group.

Alan, whose music management company Talking Primates looks after signed Blackburn punks Boredom UK, says the book, Satellite, will carry the world's first Sex Pistols CD-ROM.

The work is an illustrated look at the places and fashions which helped spawn one of the world's most notorious pop groups.

The 160-page hardback work, co-written with Paul Burgess, gives a guided tour of the venues the Pistols played and also covers the group's clothing and memorabilia as well as examining how the band's image was captured by photographers of the time.

The book includes photographs of some bizarre Pistols souvenirs, including a God Save The Queen shirt made out of muslin and a parachute top with patches marking the infamous song's slogan No Future.

Pictures of rare tour posters and Pistols concert venues are also included in the book, which is set for release through Abstract Sounds Publishing in September. Alan told Pulse: "Satellite is the result of three years' hard work for Paul and I. We wanted a book about the Sex Pistols which everyone would want to own - a coffee table trip down memory lane."

After reading Pulse's recent story about Blackburn punks The Stiffs, who released their first album this year despite being signed to EMI in 1979, Alan decided to try and get the band to play a reunion show.

He is hopeful the get-together gig will happen in East Lancashire later this year and says Boredom UK, the punks he now manages, are willing to provide support.

When Alan left school in 1981 he began work in a record shop before starting to write about music.

Since then he has written five books, set up a Beatles fan club and submitted articles to music publications including New Musical Express, Record Collector and Spiral Scratch.

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