Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back punk franco *New York Times bestseller*

*New York Times bestseller*

from the formative Uncle Tupelo recordings through the mold-breaking Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to latter-day gems Star Wars and Schmilco and beyond

With never-before-told stories and never-before-seen photographs

Then he released Blue Moves

Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back punk franco *New York Times bestseller*Christopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing even occasionally stomping on vinyl that sounded too clean. Using production techniques that have never been duplicated, the Bomb Squad plundered and reconfigured their own compositions to make frenetic splatter collages; they played samples by hand