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Network Entertainment Announces Collaboration with Billy Idol on ‘Punk’ Docu-Series
(via TheNewswire) VANCOUVER, CANADA / TheNewswire / January 4, 2017 - Network Media Gr...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Network Entertainment Announces Collaboration with Billy Idol on ‘Punk’ Docu-Series(via TheNewswire)\n\n \nVANCOUVER, CANADA / TheNewswire / January 4, 2017 - Network Media Group Inc. (\"Network\" or \"the Company\") (TSX: NTE.V) is pleased to announce it is collaborating with music icon Billy Idol on a six-part documentary series entitled 'Punk', the definitive deep dive into the Punk and Post-Punk movements, featuring the music, the characters and the subculture that shook America to its core, challenging the music establishment and influencing art, fashion, politics and generations of artists along the way. The series will be executive produced by legendary musician, Billy Idol, an early architect of punk's sound, style and fury as front man of the pioneering U.K. punk band Generation X, before vaulting into the pop mainstream as one of MTV's first megastars.\n\n\n \n\"There was a feeling that there wasn't much of a future for us young people, and in this void of nothingness, do it yourself became the ethic of the time. We wanted something new, something that spoke for us, and it lead to this thing called punk rock,\" explains Billy Idol in discussing his bestselling autobiography Dancing With Myself, \"I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.\" \n\n \n \n\"We are proud to work alongside Billy Idol, one of the music industry's most iconic figures, on this groundbreaking project,\" adds Network Founder and Executive Producer Derik Murray, \"The series will take you inside the punk movement and music scene, showcasing a seamless mix of rare and unseen photographs and video, a crackling soundtrack of punk hits and misses, and original interviews with punk's most celebrated stars.\"\n\n\n \nJoining Network's creative team is acclaimed Los Angeles-based photographer and director, Michael Grecco, who was a noted photographer in the punk era, creating quintessential images of iconic punk stars while capturing the texture and inside perspective of the scene. Grecco adds, \"Many of my photographs have never been published from this era, and I am excited to work with Network Entertainment and Billy Idol on this epic production, which will capture the essence of a time in music history in which I was immersed, and in turn captured on film.\"\n\n\n \nAbout Network Me...