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Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
THE RECORD INDUSTRY is waking up. In October there were rumours about huge deals on the horizon, and Polydor look set to be the first ...
Review by Mat Snow, Q, November 1992
NEARLY 15 YEARS after John Lydon quit the Sex Pistols, effectively ending them bar a few final pranks, his subsequent band, PiL, find themselves no ...
Audio interviews
Sex Pistols Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten (1977)
Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, 11 November 1977
Amidst a litany of Sid Vicious' belches (and demands for cigs and tea), he and Johnny Rotten are hilariously rude about... well, almost everyone: fellow Pistol Steve Jones; ex-Pistol Glen Matlock; the Bromley Contingent; Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood; Iggy Pop; the Clash; the taxman; the press; Freddie Mercury... and each other!
File format: mp3; file size: 46.9mb, interview length: 48' 52" sound quality: *****
Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, Spring 1978
The former Pistols "bass player" (one uses the term advisedly) talks about his version of 'My Way'; the break up of the band; The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle film; Ronald Biggs; planning a band with Johnny Thunders; being managed by girlfriend Nancy Spungen, and keeping his name.
File format: mp3; file size: 12.6mb, interview length: 13' 05" sound quality: *****
Interview by Steven Daly, Rock's Backpages audio, September 1990
John Lydon, eco-warrior, talks about — among many things — rap, NWA, and the Moral Majority; Malcolm McLaren and Bernie Rhodes; ex-bandmate Steve Jones; living in Los Angeles; punks becoming the new establishment; football and his beloved Arsenal; his take on fashion; liking Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour and offending Joni Mitchell; the current PiL and the band's previous members; on being involved in film... and being very rude about the Clash.
File format: mp3; file size: 104mb, interview length: 1h 48' 20" sound quality: ***
Sex Pistol Glen Matlock (2005)
Interview by Nina Antonia, Rock's Backpages audio, January 2005
From shop boy to Sex Pistol: the Pistols' key songwriter talks about the genesis of the band, the role of McLaren, goin' down the Roxy and the 100 Club Punk Festival
File format: mp3; file size: 44.4meg, interview length: 46' 15" sound quality: **
Interview by Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages audio, 5 August 2015
The venerable (post)punk talks about how he writes, from the Pistols days through PiL: his influences, motivation and about specific songs.
File format: mp3; file size: 31.3mb, interview length: 34' 09" sound quality: ** (phoner)
List of articles in the library
Special Feature by Ira Robbins, Peter Silverton, unpublished, 1976
September 21, 2021 introduction by Ira Robbins (www.trouserpress.com) ...
Sex Pistols: El Paradise Club, London
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 10 April 1976
SOHO'S EL Paradise Club is to become a Sunday residency for the Sex Pistols and London is all the better off for it. It's about ...
The Sex Pistols are four months old...
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 24 April 1976
THE SEX PISTOLS are four months old, so tuned in to the present that it's hard to find a place to play. Yet they already ...
Terrorise Your Fans The Pistol Way
Readers' Letters by Neil Tennant, uncredited writer, New Musical Express, 8 May 1976
GOSH, BLIMEY, what's going on ere? Relax, it's just a friendly Friday night down at the local — the Nashville, Kensington to be precise — ...
The Sex Pistols: 100 Club, London
Live Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, June 1976
LONDON, THE TREND centre of last decade’s mod rebellion, has been running a poor second, if not third, this time around. ...
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 5 June 1976
BUT FIRST a few words about support group Dogwatch. At first they sounded exactly like It's A Beautiful Day circa 1968, but this rapidly gave ...
Sex Pistols/Buzzcocks/Slaughter and the Dogs: Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 31 July 1976
ABOVE MANCHESTER'S Free Trade Hall is a little known auditorium, capable of holding some 400, cunningly named the Lesser Hall. Until the Sex Pistols discovered ...
Punk Rock: Rebels Against the System
Report and Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 7 August 1976
JOHNNY ROTTEN looks bored. The emphasis is on the word "looks" rather than, as Johnny would have you believe, the word "bored". His clothes, held ...
Sex Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks: Screen on the Green, Islington, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 11 September 1976
A STRANGE affair, this. And then some. ...
The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Buzzcocks: Screen On The Green, Islington, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 September 1976
Our Islington correspondent mingles with the Sex Pistols' portable audience looking for Johnny Rotten's toof. It's incisive stuff… ...
The Sex Pistols: Club De Chalet Du Lac, Paris
Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 11 September 1976
PARIS: The Sex Pistols believed the myth that it all happens in Paris. The fans who drove over specially to see the band's first appearance ...
Report by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 2 October 1976
THE 600-STRONG line, which last Monday straggled across two blocks outside London's 100 Club in Oxford Street, waiting for the Punk Rock Festival to start, ...
The Sex Pistols, The Clash et al: Punk Rock Festival, 100 Club, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 2 October 1976
High dummy count flunks punks ...
The Sex Pistols: The 100 Club, London
Live Review by Ed Jones, New Society, 7 October 1976
A STEAM ENGINE IN LABOUR ...
The (?) Rock Special (#2): The Audience
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976
"I didn't even know the Summer of Love was happening. I was too busy playing with my Action Man."— Sid Vicious ...
The (?) Rock Special (#3): Sex Pistols
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976
John Rotten (vocals), Steve Jones (guitar), Glen Matlock (bass), Paul Cook (drums). ...
Welcome To The (?) Rock Special (#1): In Love With The Modern World
Overview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976
Johnny Rotten, the Clash, the Damned and a committed cast of hundreds of new music makers give the finger to the old farts ...
Malcolm McLaren: Meet The Colonel Tom Parker of the Blank Generation
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 27 November 1976
MEET MALCOLM McLAREN. He runs a shop called "SEX". He manages a group called THE SEX PISTOLS. He sincerely believes that he and his band ...
Essay by Ed Jones, The Spectator, 27 November 1976
BEWARE! WHEN Britain's biggest record company, EMI, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the citadel of the self-regarding avant-garde, unite behind a single idea within ...
Sex Pistols: Rotten To The Core
Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 27 November 1976
"I had absolutely no interest in singing. I was more interested in being obnoxious." ...
Sex Pistols: The Anarchic Rock of the Young and Doleful
Profile by Steve Turner, The Guardian, 3 December 1976
And then there was punk. Tonight the Sex Pistols, focal point of the newly dubbed punk generation, take off on their first concert tour of ...
Sex Pistols, Damned, Clash, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers: Leeds Polytechnic
Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 11 December 1976
Punk! On stage! ...
The Sex Pistols: Great Moments In Rock Part 4336 — It's Those F***ing Punks Again!
Report by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 11 December 1976
Thousands outraged by four-letter words ...
The Sex Pistols: Johnny knows he's not mad. Can you say that?
Interview by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 11 December 1976
Barry Cain talks to the band everyone's talking about, the Sex Pistols ...
Pistols, Clash etc.: What Did You Do On The Punk Tour, Daddy?
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 18 December 1976
The Sex Pistols/The Clash/The Heartbreakers /The Buzzcocks: Electric Circus, Manchester ...
U.K. Sex Pistols Fire a Controversy
Report by Peter Jones, Billboard, 18 December 1976
LONDON — A live televised shouting match between interviewer Bill Grundy and the EMI punk rock band, Sex Pistols, in which four-letter words flew fast ...
Sex Pistols, The Clash, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers: Electric Circus, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 December 1976
THREE DANCE bands playing the Electric Circus for the second time in ten days. They're back because the Circus is one of the very few ...
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion, 1977
THE SEX PISTOLS made their debut at St Martins School of Art on Friday 6th of November 1975. The irate social secretary cut the power ...
The 100 Club Punk Rock Festival
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
Monday, September 20th: The Sex Pistols, the Clash, Subway Sect, Siouxsie and the Banshees. Tuesday, September 21st: The Damned, Chris Spedding and the Vibrators, the ...
U.K. Report: Sex Pistols And Beyond
Report and Interview by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 27 January 1977
LONDON – So this is how legends are born. Not with a song, or even a death, but with an expletive. ...
Just Dropped Intuh Tha Fun House: Impressions Of The Roxy
Report by Jane Suck, Sounds, 12 February 1977
I CAME to see Generation X and to look for prospective musicians as I had been assured that the floor was knee deep in 'em ...
Pistols: for Queen and country
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 19 March 1977
VIVIEN GOLDMAN trades insults at a strange press conference ...
The Sex Pistols: Lou Reed Joins Pistols Furore
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 26 March 1977
LOU REED claims he has been banned from the London Palladium because of the continuing controversy surrounding the Sex Pistols and punk rock. ...
The Sex Pistols: Notre Dame Hall, London
Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 26 March 1977
CRUCIFIED! High priest Rotten takes up the cloth ...
Punk Is Just Another Word for Nothin' Left To Lose
Essay by Mary Harron, The Village Voice, 28 March 1977
The worst insult in the English punks' vocabulary is "poser". These are working-class kids who resent it when the middle classes ape their style. ...
The Sex Pistols, the Slits: Screen on the Green, Islington, London
Live Review by Sandy Robertson, Record Mirror, 9 April 1977
LIKE THE Pistols' last gig. this was an unpublicised, word-of-mouth affair where you just had to turn up at the door and take your chances. ...
The Sex Pistols: The Screen on the Green, London
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 9 April 1977
IN WHICH IT must be conceded that Malcolm McLaren has a first-class media brain with a perfect instinct for theatre. ...
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, May 1977
A monthly blindfold test by those masters of Slander Rock, Mark Volman & Howard Kaylan ...
Comment by Lisa Jane Persky, New York Rocker, June 1977
EVERYTHING happens to us all so quickly these days that even before something is completed, it is dated, labels must be attached for definition and ...
Sex Pistols: Silver Jubilation
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, June 1977
A Jubilee special from the ever-patriotic Zigzag team in the form of an almost-exclusive interview with those lovable crop-tops from Shepherd's Bush, the Sex Pistols. ...
The Sex Pistols: Rotten Is Mum's Boy Shock
Report by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 4 June 1977
NO MATTER how much criticism a young boy incites by his allegedly outrageous behaviour there's always somebody who will lovingly stand by him. His mum. ...
Rick Wakeman Denies Press Rumors In Sex Pistols Controversy
Interview by Jim Farber, Circus, 9 June 1977
LONDON: The furor over the Sex Pistols' firing by A&M Records still rages in the British Press. Punk rock is more controversial than ever. Circus ...
The Sex Pistols: Enemies of the World
Interview by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 11 June 1977
• FACT. Simply by stating 'No Future' the Pistols are creating one • FACT. Their music outshines, outflanks and outclasses much of the jetlagged ineptitude ...
A Non-Interview With Malcolm McLaren
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 18 June 1977
I VISITED THE office of Glitterbest (Sex Pistols management) recently, accompanied by Tony D. (editor of Ripped & Torn fanzine) to try and arrange an ...
What Did You Do On The Jubilee? The Pistols on the Thames
Report by Jon Savage, Sounds, 18 June 1977
BEFORE THE POLICE came, it was a great party. Make that a capital G. ...
New Releases: The Kids Err Alright
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, July 1977
REMEMBER "PUNK ROCK?" For a while there it was the supreme hip misconception — a much abused catch-all referring in general to any sort of ...
Interview by Kris Needs, New York Rocker, July 1977
AFTER MONTHS of concentrated opposition from about every form of authority under the sun, The Sex Pistols are finally winning. Everybody from record companies to ...
GLC v Punk: Move Over, Sid Vicious
Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 9 July 1977
GLC Tory jumps on "Good Kickin'" bandwagon ...
A Punk And His Music: An Evening With John Rotten
Interview by uncredited writer, Sounds, 23 July 1977
JOHNNY ROTTEN digs reggae and soul. That was one of the more interesting facets of his personality that emerged when he was interviewed by DJ ...
The Sex Pistols on Top of the Pops (BBC1)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 23 July 1977
Out to Lunch ...
Sex Pistols Trigger Punk Rock Invasion
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 1977
DESPITE ENORMOUS media attention, the U.S. music industry has maintained a hands-off policy toward new wave or punk-rock music, probably hoping that it will go ...
Sex Pistols Trigger Punk Rock Invasion
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 1977
DESPITE ENORMOUS media attention, the U.S. music industry has maintained a hands-off policy toward new wave or punk-rock music, probably hoping that it will go ...
The Social Rehabilitation of the Sex Pistols
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 6 August 1977
THE PROSPEROUS CYBORGS at the next table in the backroom of this expensive Stockholm eating-place are sloshing down their coffee as fast as they possibly ...
Punk: something Rotten in England
Report by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 11 August 1977
LONDON — British member of Parliament Marcus Lipton told his constituents that if punk rock was going to be used to destroy Britain's established institutions, ...
Sex Pistols: 'Jooh-Nee! Jooh-Nee! Jooh-Nee!'
Report by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 13 August 1977
Swedes plead, Pistols perform, and Dadomo, the lone wop, reports on the second leg of their Scandinavian tour ...
On The Road With The Pistols Part 101: Inside Rotten's Wardrobe
Report by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 20 August 1977
And other Swedish delights. By GIOVANNI DADOMO ...
The Sex Pistols: Kick out the jams
Comment by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 25 August 1977
IT CONTRAVENES logic, but there is little doubt in my mind that the most important record of the past year is the Sex Pistols' 'God ...
Sex Pistols: The Rotten Interview
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 27 August 1977
In Sweden With The Pistols Part 194 ...
Overview by Stephen Demorest, Hit Parader, October 1977
Hey, said my name is called disturbance. I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the king,I'll rail at all his servants.–(Rolling Stones, 1968) ...
The Sex Pistols: Not So Rotten After All
Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Trouser Press, October 1977
RIGHT NOW in London, late August 1977, there's not a single sliver of doubt about it: this is the year of ...the Sex Pistols. They ...
Comment by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 10 October 1977
UP UNTIL about six months ago, CBGB's was the only rock bar I ever felt comfortable in. All you needed was a long scarf and ...
Beyond the Dole Queue: The Politics of Punk
Essay by Simon Frith, The Village Voice, 24 October 1977
The Clash and the Pistols have established social realism as an essential part of punk ideology, but this does not make their music the "direct ...
Report by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 29 October 1977
FOR A MOMENT there I thought I'd stumbled into a dream I just wasn't equipped to handle. All change for Edge City. The punk behind ...
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1977
THE TITLE SAYS it all really. Ignore the press hysteria, dopey articles in Rolling Stone and cross-country panic/fear/loathing over "those foul-mouthed Sex Pistols". This album ...
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 5 November 1977
Here am I – there are you – here's the Sex Pistols. ...
Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten (1977) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 11 November 1977
This is a transcript of John's audio interview with Sid and Johnny. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, December 1977
The Life-Affirming, Entropy-Baiting Ramones and Sex Pistols ...
The Sex Pistols: "Money doesn't talk, it swears" — official
Report by Caroline Coon, Sounds, 3 December 1977
Pistols album not guilty ...
The Sid Vicious Guide To London Hotels
Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 10 December 1977
IT WAS AT THE A&M Sex Pistols press conference, convened early this year, that newly appointed group bassist Sid Vicious gave his brusque views on ...
Never Mind The Sex Pistols, Here Comes The Wrath Of Sid!
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 17 December 1977
IT WAS the last day in November when the whole ugly mess finally exploded. Sid Vicious, the bass player of The Sex Pistols, had once ...
Sex Pistols: Brunel University, Uxbridge
Live Review by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 24 December 1977
WELL. WHAT'S the thing, how de rigeur should I be? What do you want to hear? ...
American Grandstand: Punk Inc.
Comment by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 29 December 1977
PETER RUDGE, who manages the Rolling Stones' American tours and likes to speculate about rock & roll almost as much as I do, suggested recently ...
Sex Pistols: Few Waves Made During Tour Of U.S.
Report by Susan Compo, Santa Ana Register, January 1978
IT'S NOT SURPRISING that Britain's punk rockers, the Sex Pistols, found San Francisco "boring". The city that was to be the last stop on the ...
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, January 1978
HO HUM, ANOTHER album from the Pistols. No, seriously, this is it. After all the controversy, bannings, bullshit and speculation, the Pistols finally have something ...
Report by Wesley Strick, Circus, 5 January 1978
Will Their Punk Madness Spread to the States? ...
The Sex Pistols: Great SouthEast Music Hall, Atlanta GA
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 7 January 1978
More heat than raunch in Sex Pistols debut ...
Sex Pistols: 'I hear you like Dolly Parton down here... are you still celebrating Elvis' birthday?'
Report by Dave Schulps, Sounds, 14 January 1978
...or how to win friends and influence people i Memphis, Johnny Rotten style. The Sex Pistols hit America and DAVE SCHULPS gives an American's-eye view ...
Sex Pistols: The Great South-East Music Hall, Atlanta, GA
Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 14 January 1978
Johnny leaves his heart in Finsbury Park Barry Cain reports on the start of the Sex Pistols' American tour ...
The Sex Pistols: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 16 January 1978
Sex Pistols end U.S. offensive bored but richer ...
America Learns to Loathe the Pistols
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 21 January 1978
Michael Watts reports on the Memphis hotel set-up (was it the CIA?); the two suspicious cowboys (were they big-time dope dealers?); the sociologists' poll (where ...
Goodbye — and Good Riddance: The Sex Pistols, Winterland, San Francisco
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 21 January 1978
Harvey Kubernik's personal view of the Pistols' last U.S. gig at Winterland in San Francisco ...
The Sex Pistols: Magical mystery tour
Report by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 21 January 1978
BARRY CAIN goes to America to say hullo to the Pistols. They say hullo back ...
Sex Pistols: This Could Be The Last Time
Report by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 28 January 1978
HYSTERIA! Disgust! Bemusement! Perplexity! The hip, FM radio dj still can't believe it. The Sex Pistols in San Francisco – heavee, man! Back in Hollywood, ...
The Sex Pistols: Winterland, San Francisco
Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 28 January 1978
London's pride take over USA – The Pistols' last gig? ...
Report by Howie Klein, New York Rocker, February 1978
In case you were incommunicado for the last month, the much-ballyhooed Sex Pistols American tour has come and gone. ...
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (Warner Bros. BSK 3147)
Review by Toby Goldstein, Crawdaddy!, February 1978
BOLLOCKS OR BULLETS? ...
An Evening with Sid and Nancy – The Odd Couple Behind Closed Doors.
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 4 February 1978
SWAYING CRAZILY, Sid Vicious clambers up off the bed. He manages the three or four steps to where, obeying live-in-lover Nancy's instructions, he removes the ...
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (Warner Bros. BSK 5147)
Review by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone, 23 February 1978
The rock wars are on: The Sex Pistols drop the Big One ...
Letter From Britain: Winter Wasteland
Comment by Simon Frith, Creem, March 1978
I HATE WINTER, even in cosy old Britain, so I certainly don't know what I'm doing here, sitting in a motel room in Birmingham, Michigan, ...
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (Warner Bros.)
Review by Wesley Strick, Circus, 2 March 1978
Johnny Rotten Assaults Rock & Roll ...
John Lydon: Man A Warrior – The Interview part 1
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 4 March 1978
There's only one place to be late at night in Jamaica – tuned in to radio JBC, the man Michael Campbell, the man they call ...
John Lydon: Man A Warrior, part 2
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 11 March 1978
CYNICS AMONG the SOUNDS readership may have been wondering why/how our Johnny Rotten underwent such a speedy transformation into this new-fangled character called Johnny Cool, ...
Report by Fred Schruers, Circus, 16 March 1978
CIRCUS Invades Britain for a Classic Punk Clash ...
The Poolside Pronouncements Of Johnny 'No-Tan' Rotten
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 18 March 1978
JOHN ROTTEN likes dressing up. Seeing him stuck away under a parasol by the side of the Olympic-sized pool of the Kingston Sheraton at eleven ...
Johnny On The Split: "I'm A Free Man!"
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, April 1978
JUST AS we were going to press, pasting up pictures of Messrs. Rotten, Vicious, Jones and Cook, the news broke. The band had broken up ...
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, April 1978
JUST FOR A CRACK HERE IS ONE OF THE LAST U.K. INTERVIEWS THE PISTOLS DID ...
Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 8 April 1978
When SID VICIOUS was at the height of fame with the Sex Pistols, be was supporting an £80 a day heroin habit. His fix cost ...
The Sex Pistols Shoot To The Top
Report by Susan Compo, Santa Ana Register, 12 June 1978
WHEN 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN', a song by British punk-rockers the Sex Pistols, hit the top of the English charts several months ago, it was ...
Interview by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 15 July 1978
Ronald Biggs, one of the Great Train Robbers, speaks to TIM LOTT from Rio. Biggs under his new guise as punk poet talks about his ...
The Great Pistols Movies Fiasco
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 29 July 1978
VIVIEN GOLDMAN ON THE 'OFFICIAL' MOVIE WHICH STILL ISN'T FINISHED — AND THE BRILLIANT ONE MALCOLM WONT LET YOU SEE ...
Interview by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, August 1978
Johnny Says Never Mind The Bollocks ...
The Sex Pistols Interview: The Life & Crimes Of Two Simpleton Workin' Class Tossers
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 August 1978
THE SCENE: A modern four roomed flat situated somewhere near the Edgware Road. Its two inhabitants, Messrs Paul Cook and Steve Jones, are holding forth ...
Sid and Nancy: Life In The Vicious Circle
Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 21 October 1978
SID VICIOUS (born John Simon Ritchie — though his mother's remarried name is Mrs. Ann Beverley) may hold the all-time record for building up an ...
Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 28 October 1978
Sex Pistols: Indecent Exposure (It's A Dirty Business) (Rotten Records – bootleg album)'Anarchy In The U.S.A.'/'Belsen Was A Gas' (Rotten Role – bootleg single). ...
Have Guitar, Will Travel: Chris Spedding
Interview by Richard Grabel, New York Rocker, November 1978
CHRIS SPEDDING — the name that launched a thousand session credits. He's played guitar for everyone from John Cale to the Wombles, including Bryan Ferry, ...
Comment by uncredited writer, New York Rocker, November 1978
WHAT MORE can we add to the pathetic, sordid tale of Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious? ...
The Sex Pistols: Bootleg Albums
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 18 November 1978
The Sex Pistols: Gun Control/Live at the Rodeo ...
Public Image Ltd.: We Only Wanted To Be Loved
Interview by Robin Banks, ZigZag, December 1978
THE ENIGMATIC Johnny Lydon. Dubbed "The Messiah of Punk" by those who only thought in clichés, he was catapulted into a situation that left him ...
Sid Vicious (1978) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages transcripts, Spring 1978
This is a transcription of John's audio interview with Sid. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Report by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 3 February 1979
NEW YORK — Sid Vicious joined his girlfriend Nancy in death yesterday. ...
Sid Vicious: A Rocky Lifestyle Played Out to Its Extreme End
Obituary by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 February 1979
EPITAPH FOR a punk: Even before his somehow not too surprising drug overdose death at age 21, Sid Vicious already scrawled his name indelibly in ...
Report by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 24 February 1979
AS JOHNNY Rotten savours his first victory in the Lydon-Glitterbest case, Public Image Ltd. prepare to record a second album with a new drummer, the ...
The Sex Pistols: The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 24 February 1979
"WHAT NEEDS UNDERSTANDING is the state of paralysis everyone is in..." ...
The Rise And Fall Of Malcolm McLaren Part One: Tin Pan Alley Meets An Idea Whose Time Has Come...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 16 June 1979
The Man Who Sold The World ...
The Rise And Fall of Malcolm McLaren Part Two: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Go Riding...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 23 June 1979
EARLY IN July, 1978, the office of Glitterbest Ltd. at 90/98 Shaftesbury Avenue, which is the centre of London's Theatreland, received the following letter. ...
The Rise And Fall Of Malcolm McLaren Part Three: Last Tango In Paris — 'Je Ne Regrette Rien...'
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 30 June 1979
WHEN HE WAS LYING, HE WAS MORE INTERESTING THAN MANY MEN TELLING A STORY TRULY. ...
Report and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 7 July 1979
"WE WANT SHUM! WE WANT SHUM! WE WANT SHUM!" Friday night in Glasgow The Apollo is packed to capacity and if you want understatements the ...
Sex Pistols: Some Product: Carri On Sex Pistols (Virgin)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 28 July 1979
THIS IS getting silly. ...
The Sex Pistols: The Very Best Of
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 2 February 1980
THE PERFECT contradiction: The Japs offer such fine pressings, this album'll cost you about £9 if you want it…and I'm reviewing it as usual on ...
The Sex Pistols: Flogging A Dead Horse (Virgin V2142)
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 9 February 1980
THIS RECORD gets no stars at all 'cos it's totally worthless, all the tracks included are still readily available elsewhere, Pistols fans will have them ...
Public Image Ltd.: Metal Box (Virgin import); Sid Vicious: Sid Sings! (Virgin import)
Review by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, March 1980
PIL'S METAL BOX: THE TIN CAN HAS A HEART ...
Father-Figure Knows Best: Rock managers from Elvis to Elvis
Overview by Dave Marsh, Trouser Press, June 1980
EVER SINCE Col. Tom Parker, genius entrepreneur of Hadacol, dancing chickens and Eddy Arnold, signed Elvis Presley to an exclusive (on both parts) contract, managers ...
Malcolm McLaren... the True Poison!
Interview by Chris Salewicz, The Face, May 1981
You're dealing with a very low level of creativity in the music business. The man who sits in his office marketing records is not a ...
The No-Frills Attack of Chris Spedding
Interview by Van Gosse, Guitar World, May 1981
Don't ask this guitar star what gauge of strings he uses. He just might punch you in the face. ...
Interview by Johnny Black, unpublished, February 1982
This is the full transcript of the interview, a small (1500-word) version of which appeared in Over 21 magazine in May 1982. ...
Malcolm McLaren: Innovation Or Exploitation?
Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, February 1982
Malcolm McLaren, the shaker and baker of British punk, turned the Sex Pistols into an epochal event, turned Adam Ant around and now plays Svengali ...
Essay by Chris Salewicz, The History of Rock, 1983
AS A REBEL MUSIC, punk rock had close affinities with reggae. When the punk movement found a focal point and place of worship in the ...
The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle: How Malcolm McLaren made cash from chaos
Profile by Steve Turner, The History of Rock, 1983
THERE IS A CERTAIN TYPE OF ROCK MANAGER whose clients become the means to express his own artistic vision: in the late Fifties, Larry Parnes ...
Interview by Jon Savage, The Face, October 1983
FOR SOMEONE whose work has graced millions of record sleeves and influenced a whole generation, Jamie Reid’s personal profile is not the highest. This is ...
Nancy Spungen: If You Knew Nancy…
Book Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 21 January 1984
IF ANYTHING CAN PUT THE LID on the Romeo and Juliet myth that has enshrined Nancy Spungen in the post-punk hagiography, it will be a ...
Julian Temple: From a Dandy to a Rogue
Interview by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 19 February 1984
PORTRAIT OF THE CAMBRIDGE FOP AS FILM MAKER Julian Temple, a Cambridge history graduate, was rescued from the National Film School, by The Great Rock ...
Julien Temple: The Inner Temple
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 1 December 1984
Wordsmith and sedentary snapper Adam Sweeting interrogates filmmaker and promo video master JULIEN TEMPLE... ...
Essay by Paul Yamada, unpublished, 1985
ANY SERIOUS study of rock music should sift through the history to discover outbreaks, accidents and ruptures in and, of rock, that offer themselves as ...
Overview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, January 1986
TO PUT EVERYTHING INTO PERSPECTIVE, AS TO WHERE THE ORIGINALS FROM '76 HAVE GONE; BE IT A WAYSIDE DITCH OR A MAJOR RECORD COMPANY WATER ...
Lydon vs McLaren: The End of the Affair
Report by Jon Savage, Spin, April 1986
EARLY IN 1976, the Sex Pistols were a good idea trying to get started, gate-crashing other people's concerts — with instruments allegedly stolen from rich ...
Interview by Brian Case, Ted Mico, Melody Maker, 19 July 1986
'Waddya wanna make a film about two dead junkies for?' said Malcolm McLaren when he heard of ALEX COX's plans to make a movie of ...
Sid And Nancy (Dir. Alex Cox; Palace Pictures, 18, 92 minutes)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Sylvia Patterson, Smash Hits, 30 July 1986
ALEX COX, film director: "In 1980 I tried to write a screenplay called 'Too Kool To Die'. It was about an English rock 'n' roll ...
Retrospective by Nick Kent, The Face, August 1986
SID LIVES ON T-SHIRTS AND IN A NEW FILM, BUT MOSTLY HE JUST LIVES ON IN INFAMY ...
"Poor Sid — You were a good guy, but..."
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 7 November 1986
SID AND Nancy, Alex Cox's film about the life and death of the Sex Pistols' bassist, Sid Vicious, and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, is a ...
Sid And Nancy (Dir. Alex Cox; Samuel Goldwyn Co.)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Kris Needs, Creem, December 1986
LOVE IS A ROSE ...
Interview by Jon Savage, unpublished, 30 May 1988
This interview was for Jon Savage's classic punk book England's Dreaming, and is published here in its entirity for the first time. ...
Malcolm McLaren: Pernicious? Moi?
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, August 1989
IN THE "PIANO BAR" of a Mayfair hotel, portion of club sandwich in one hand, glass of fine red wine in the other, Malcolm McLaren ...
Report by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1990
Indeed you do... for the guitar Hendrix played at Woodstock. But it's considerably less for a life-size oil painting of Ozzy Osbourne. Adrian Deevoy examines ...
Jon Savage: "I Remember Punk Rock..."
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991
He was a bored public schoolboy, then JON SAVAGE heard the Pistols and the Clash and the strings of his heart went ping. He's now ...
Jon Savage: England's Dreaming
Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, November 1991
EVEN THOUGH 15 YEARS have passed since the release of 'Anarchy In The UK', there has never been a book which has satisfactorily documented Britain's ...
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, March 1992
THE MAN IN THE ETHNIC-TEA-COSY-STYLED headwear and the unsightly puce satin ski pants lies back on my sofa, swigs lustily from a bottle of strong ...
Overview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 22 May 1993
From The Kinks to Carter, Bowie to Blur, the Small Faces to Suede, British pop groups have eulogised, mythologised, criticised, glamorised, immortalised, romanticised and agonised ...
Greil Marcus: A Surfer on the Zeitgeist
Profile and Interview by Andy Beckett, The Independent, 23 May 1993
This isn't exactly life on the edge: Greil Marcus is married, nearly 50, and lives in a nice big house in northern California. But he ...
Pointing Pistols at the throne
Essay by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 2 June 1993
There is something Rotten in the state of England. Republicanism is emerging as an option even for Tory meritocrats — thanks to the punk's subversiveness ...
Nick Kent: Hack From The Brink
Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 28 May 1994
Wanna find out where MM acquired its taste for livid purple prose? Then let PAUL LESTER introduce you to legendary rock journalist NICK KENT, whose ...
Who the Hell Does John Lydon Think He Is?
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, June 1994
THE INTERVIEW, Q vs Lydon, should have taken place several months ago but when I turned up on his Fulham doorstep and rang his bell, ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, July 1995
Summer, 1976. Punk, live punk, is about to explode in the capital. Tap rooms, Poly bars and sweaty clubs will host its unwashed greats. Johnny Black looks ...
Report by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 11 August 1995
Jon Savage mulls over the four-year struggle to put his definitive study of Punk, England's Dreaming, on television ...
The Sex Pistols Sign To A&M Records
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, October 1995
Early 1977, and following the inevitable bust-up with EMI, the Sex Pistols are about to release 'God Save The Queen' and embark on their shortest ...
The Sex Pistols: Taking Another Shot
Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 1996
Prototypical punks the Sex Pistols are back together — so take cover ...
Sid Vicious: Disgusting of Tunbridge Wells
Essay by Peter Silverton, The Observer, 23 June 1996
Pete Silverton was busy celebrating his 21st with aunties and uncles, and the promise of a pewter mug. Then who should turn up but Sid ...
Report by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 26 June 1996
On Sunday, the punks were rocking again. But what on earth were they wearing? ...
A Seance in Finsbury Park: The Sex Pistols Reunite
Live Review by Jon Savage, Spin, August 1996
JUST BEFORE the Sex Pistols take the stage in the waning light, a curious hush falls on the boisterous punk crowd. A myth is to ...
The Sex Pistols and Friends: Finsbury Park, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, August 1996
IS THERE ANYTHING WHICH THE RECONSTITUTED Sex Pistols – freeze-dried, just add money – could possibly have done at their "comeback" show which would have ...
Never Mind Their Principles, Here's The Sex Pistols
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 9 August 1996
FAIRFAX, Va. — Johnny Rotten is up to his old tricks. He's baiting the crowd — calling those seated in the loge "sissies" — and ...
The Sex Pistols: Filthy Lucre Live ***½
Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 19 September 1996
PERRY FARRELL once titled a Jane's Addiction album Nothing's Shocking. He has since spent his entire career trying to prove otherwise. John Lydon — once ...
The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, The Heartbreakers, The Buzzcocks: Destination Nowhere
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, December 1996
Twenty years ago this month, the Sex Pistols, Clash, Damned, Heartbreakers and Buzzcocks embarked upon the Anarchy Tour. What followed more than lived up to ...
Interview by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 20 December 1996
A young New York painter looks like becoming "the first artist of Britpop". Jon Savage on how Elizabeth Peyton's portraits of Jarvis, Liam and Noel ...
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone, Summer 1996
The jury’s out. It’s either the ultimate joke, the perfect punch-line — plump, forty, pimple-free Johnny Rotten with a tan only sensible living and serious ...
The Sex Pistols: Finsbury Park, London
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone, Summer 1996
"WELL?" Johnny Rotten asked the 30,000-strong crowd dotting the park — not a sell-out, despite weeks of hype and a festival-sized bill, though more than ...
Sod Awf! The Sex Pistols And Other Pleasantries Of Punk
Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, February 1998
A Short History of the NOW! ROCK EXISTS in the humming; now, an all-enveloping bubble of sound, energy and ecstasy. Like being at the flashpoint ...
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1999
YOU'VE PROBABLY heard this before, but this time it's true. The best Punk book yet has just hit the streets, written by someone who were ...
Retrospective by Philip Norman, Daily Mail, 1999
ON DECEMBER 1, 1976, Londoners tuned in to Thames TV's Today show, expecting the usual bland mix of metropolitan news and views appropriate for a ...
Sex Pistols: The Filth, The Fury, The Fun!
Report and Interview by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, May 2000
Director Julien Temple discusses the new Pistols film with Mark Paytress. ...
Sophie Richmond: Sid, Johnny, Malcolm & me
Retrospective and Interview by Robert Webb, The Independent, 10 May 2000
She paid Johnny Rotten his weekly wages, clashed with Sid Vicious and was arrested alter the Jubilee cruise gig. Sophie Richmond, Malcolm McLaren's former PA, ...
Retrospective by Gary Pig Gold, Cosmik Debris, June 2000
1. MALCOLM McLAREN Never before in the long and illustrious annals of popular music history has a man been handed so much raw talent atop a ...
Johnny Rotten on the Sex Pistols' 20 Wildest Moments
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, June 2000
With The Filth & The Fury coming your way, John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten, recalls how the Sex Pistols became the most exciting band ever ...
The Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK
Retrospective and Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, June 2000
THE EARLY SEVENTIES have been a golden age for the homegrown British pop single. The pan-stick and yob fraternity, which includes T-Rex, Sweet, Slade, Mott ...
Retrospective and Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 2001
More than 20 years after they committed high treason during the Queen's silver jubilee, the Sex Pistols are still the kings of rock rebellion. As ...
Various Artists: Cash From Chaos: The Complete Punk Collection
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, February 2002
Perverse selection – from New York Dolls to Gonads, Buzzcocks to Toy Dolls — misses chance to be definitive summary ...
The Sex Pistols: Crystal Palace Sports Centre, London
Live Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 6 August 2002
We Might As Well Be Proud Of Them ...
The 10 Greatest Publicity Stunts
Comment by Ben Thompson, Observer Music Monthly, September 2003
Pop music has always lived off hype and spin — and often no good has come of it. But certain stunts are so outrageous or ...
Sid Vicious: Threw a Glass Darkly
Book Excerpt by Mark Paytress, 'Vicious: The Art of Dying Young', Sanctuary Books, 2004
SID did it. Didn’t he? ...
Retrospective by Jonh Ingham, Q, 2005
APRIL 1976: For me it began at the El Paradise strip club, where the Sex Pistols filled a tiny room with three-chord beat and Rotten ...
Children In The Mire: A Reading Of Bangs, Marcus And The Sex Pistols, part 1
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2005
"THE DOMAIN OF the theater is not psychological but plastic and physical. And it is not a question of whether the physical language of theater ...
Children in the Mire: Bangs, Marcus, and the Sex Pistols, Part II – Polly
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2005
The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open.Our magnolia blossoms. Life begins to happen. My hopped up husband drops his home disputes, and ...
Retrospective by David Dalton, MOJO, February 2005
When Sid Vicious joined the Sex Pistols in 1977 it was the end of the band and the beginning of his metamorphosis into mythic rock ...
Ten Reasons Why The Sex Pistols Didn't (or Couldn't) Save Rock And Roll
Comment by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, August 2005
In honor of Julien Temple's great new film The Filth And The Fury Gary Pig Gold humbly submits to both punks and non-punks, old and ...
We're the daddies: Ladies and Gentlemen, We're the Fabulous Stains
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, Spring 2005
Anyone remember the legendary "lost" film featuring the Clash, Pistols and, erm, Ray Winstone? ...
Punk File #1: The First Anarchic Year
Retrospective and Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, June 2006
'76 WAS PRETTY hairy. The anniversary headlines might read "1976, The Year Of Punk", but for most kids flares and long hair (still a sign ...
Nick Kent: Apathy for the Devil – A 1970s Memoir
Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 21 February 2010
AS AN EYEWITNESS account of the dangerous excesses of the 1970s rock scene, Apathy for the Devil is in a compulsively readable class of its ...
Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, March 2010
IN CALIFORNIA WE MEET a traveller from an antique land. On two scrawny legs – KFC issue – he stands. He has a shattered look. ...
Obituary by Alex Ogg, Rock's Backpages, 12 April 2010
MALCOLM MCLAREN, who died on April 8 aged 64 after a protracted battle with cancer, was punk's self-mythologised circus barker. His custodianship of the musical ...
When the Pistols Came to Memphis
Memoir by Tom Graves, Guerilla Monster Films, August 2010
WHEN THE SEX Pistols blitzed into Memphis on a very cold Friday night in January (the 6th) 1978, probably not one in ten people in ...
Interview by Paul Gorman, Paul Gorman Is, 18 February 2011
THERE IS A portrait of David Bowie taken by Kate Simon at Olympic recording studios in Barnes, west London, on January 14, 1974. The photograph ...
Dennis Morris: "Suddenly we were black, not coloured"
Retrospective and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 25 March 2012
Dennis Morris is celebrated for his iconic photographs of the Sex Pistols and Bob Marley. But few knew that in that pivotal era he was ...
Never mind the swastikas: the secret history of the UK's "punky Jews"
Retrospective by Vivien Goldman, The Guardian, 27 February 2014
Punk Svengalis Malcolm McLaren and Bernie Rhodes were Jewish, and the faith had an influence on UK labels and journalists. For Jewish kids, meanwhile, the ...
Flies on Shit: Alex Chilton Goes Back to Memphis
Book Excerpt by Holly George-Warren, Viking Books, March 2014
The former Big Star man sees the Sex Pistols in Memphis and limbers up for the shambolic Like Flies On Sherbert. An exclusive excerpt from ...
Retrospective by Paul Gorman, Paul Gorman Is, 12 February 2016
TODAY IS THE 40th anniversary of the gig at central London venue The Marquee by the Sex Pistols which generated their first substantial media coverage, ...
Provincial Gains: Sex Pistols in the Early Summer of '76
Book Excerpt by Clinton Heylin, 'Anarchy in the Year Zero' (Route Books), May 2016
"The sound is a mean cacophony, not unreminiscent of Bowie's early Spiders, the material a mixture of Anglo-American teen punk classics – the Stooges' 'No ...
Steve Jones – Lonely Boy; Johnny Marr – Set The Boy Free
Book Review by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 20 November 2016
Contrasting memoirs of life in the Sex Pistols and the Smiths from two charismatic working-class guitarists. ...
Interview by Bob Mehr, MOJO, January 2017
Smack with Thunders, hugs with Dylan, robbery, assault and Rotten: it's been emotional for the Sex Pistols' sonic sparkplug. "I was always told I was ...
The night that changed my life: Paul Morley on the Sex Pistols' legendary 1976 gig in Manchester
Memoir by Paul Morley, New Statesman, 6 December 2018
I became the writer I wanted to be writing from a city that reacted the quickest and smartest to the lurid poetics of the Sex ...
The true punk confessions of Stuart Pearce
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 6 November 2019
ON THE MORNING of the 23rd of June 1996, Stuart Pearce was the most famous person in the country. The previous afternoon, England had beaten ...
I Was (Almost) a Teenage Sex Pistol: David Harrison
Book Excerpt by Paul Gorman, 'The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren' (Constable), April 2020
IN 1975, THE regular customers at Sex – the fetish boutique operated at 430 King’s Road by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood – included David ...
Memoir by Paul Wellings, Louder Than War, June 2021
10. The Good, The Bad And The Queen, Rock Against Racism 30th anniversary, Victoria Park, London. 2008 I went to the original RAR gigs and ...
Jon Savage: A Conversation about England's Dreaming
Interview by Irina Shtreis, Louder Than War, 14 July 2021
The new edition of England's Dreaming is out now via Faber & Faber and Rough Trade as part of the bundle including two other pivotal ...
Two Johnnies Get a Lift: Christmas Eve 1976
Memoir by Ed Jones, Rock's Backpages, December 2021
IT WAS 11.30 pm on Christmas Eve, 1976, at the height of the punk explosion. To the dismay of the entire nation, I had temporarily ...
Retrospective by Paul Gorman, MacGuffin, August 2022
AS SIMULTANEOUS SYMBOLS of subjugation and liberation, chains were co-opted in the bricolage approaches to the hundreds, if not thousands, of individualistic identities — in ...
see also John Lydon
see also Malcolm McLaren
see also Professionals, The
see also Public Image Ltd
see also Rich Kids, The
see also Spectres, The
see also Sid Vicious
see also Ronnie Biggs
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