Product Spotlight - Read and Destroy Book

Venture deep into the annals of British skate history with the all new Read and Destroy book, offering an insight look into the UK skate scene between 1978 and 1995.

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Take a trip down memory lane with the all-new Read and Destroy Book, offering up an inside look at one of the UK's most influential skate magazines with archival photography, illustrations and insights from the original team. Whether you're an old-school head looking to relive the glory days or an aspiring skate history nerd on the search for knowledge, is a must-have for anyone with an interest in skate culture, young or old.

Published between 1987 and 1995 under the editorship of Tim Leighton-Boyce, Read and Destroy (R.a.D) first evolved out of the BMX magazine, 'BMX Action Bike', before gradually making the transition into a fully-fledged skate mag. Over the years, R.a.D established itself as one of the leading UK skateboard magazines, documenting a load of the best skaters both inside and outside the UK. However, all good things must come to the end and the mag ended up moving to a new publisher, resulting in the core team leaving, before it was eventually swallowed up by Sidewalk.

Edited by Dan Adams, the new Read and Destroy Book is filled with 272 full-colour pages of premium skateboard history from the R.a.D archive. As the title suggests the Read and Destroy book showcases skateboarding through a British lens between 1978 and 1995, capturing the death and rebirth of skateboarding as it evolved from a fringe subculture to a globally-recognised cornerstone of extreme sports and street culture.

Taking you deeper than ever into the history of UK skateboarding, the Read and Destroy book is packed with archival photography from a load of the UK's finest alongside lovingly-drawn illustrations to help further bring them to life. Likewise, the book also features commentary from the magazine's original editorial team to offer an even more intimate look into the history of this illustrious mag.

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