Alain Pacadis : un jeune homme chic

A typical character, Alain Pacadis was, at the end of the 1970s, a witness to the emergence of the punk movement in France. While he frequented the Parisian underground scene, he wrote for several newspapers and wrote a regular column in Liberation – the “White Flash” section, which has become legendary. He recounts his outings and meetings and multiplies interviews with the stars of the moment, from Serge Gainsbourg to Andy Warhol. A classy young man gathers the diary entries he kept from October 1976 to October 1977.
In this world, which lives mainly at night, a philosophy of decadence, of the "no future" is developed "live", a desire to shock, a reinvention of codes - dress and music, but also sexual norms -, which Pacadis fully claims.
This book brings to life, to see, in real time, the gestures, ideas, lifestyles and characters that made the punk movement. What Pacadis sets out to do, in the end, is to fully experience the advent of punk. Writing is an extension of this existence: not a means of documenting, but of “capturing the moment”. Because, as he himself confided to Serge Gainsbourg, "one day later, it's over".