Download or read book No Sleep Till Canvey Island written by Will Birch and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It began with an outrageous press trip to New York to launch unknown rock band Brinsley Schwarz, which went disastrously wrong, and it went on to launch the careers of Ian Dury, Elvis Costello and Joe Strummer. The pub rock scene of the early 1970s was one of the most eventful and important in British music history.