The Republic of Rock ‘n’ Roll & Skinheads, Fur Traders & DJs

Kim Clarke Champniss is the author of two books: Skinheads, Fur Traders and DJs. A true story of an adventurous pop-loving teenager who, in the early 1970s, went from London’s discotheques to the Canadian sub-arctic to work for the Hudson’s Bay Company. His job? Buying furs and helping run the trading post in the settlement of Arviat (then known as Eskimo Point), Northwest Territories (population: 750).

That young man was Kim Clarke Champniss, who would later become a VJ on MuchMusic. His extraordinary adventures unfolded in a chain of On the Road experiences across Canada. His mind-boggling journey, from London, to the far Canadian North, to the spotlight, is the stuff of music and TV legends. Kim brings his incredible knowledge of music and pop culture and the history of disco music, weaving them into this wild story of his exciting and uniquely crazy 1970s. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/author/kim-clarke-champniss/id603331756?mt=11

And: The Republic of Rock ‘n’ Roll – The Roaring 80s from Curtis to Cobain is a fascinating musical journey through the 1980s, as seen through the eyes of pop culture expert Kim Clarke Champniss. The ebook, which links to iTunes, is packed with trivia and photographs, and captures the history, energy, music and excitement of a revolutionary decade. It also tells the real life story of one man trying to make a living in the mercurial music industry during a turbulent era. The story starts off in Vancouver when Kim was an influential New Wave night club deejay, and follows him through the decade as he progresses to become manager of one of Canada’s pioneer electronic bands (Images In Vogue), and then a MuchMusic veejay based in Toronto traveling the world reporting on rock ‘n’ roll. Buy it here: www.therepublicofrocknroll.com