To Hell with Poverty!: A Class Act: Inside the Gang of Four

by Jon King

TO HELL WITH POVERTY documents Jon King's story from a South London slum and impoverished working-class background to international success as core musician, lyricist, writer, and producer in the legendary postpunk/funk band Gang of Four. The reader is taken on an episodic and kaleidoscopic journey full of adventures from childhood to the end of Gang of Four's "golden period" in 1984. Thrown off the hit British TV show Top...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1636142346
• ISBN13: 9781636142340
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Length: 336 Pages