Like Punk Never Happened

Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop is a 1985 book about Culture Club and British pop music in the 1980s by music journalist Dave Rimmer. The book compares 1980s New Pop bands with the 1970s punk rock groups that preceded them. The book "...documents the lessons new pop musicians learned from the punk bands (more artistic control, better business acumen)." The paperback has 196 pages and it is published by Faber & Faber (ISBN 0571137393 ISBN 978-0-571-13739-8). In 2022, the book was republished with a new foreword by Neil Tennant.