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Johnny Rotten expresses how I felt post-screening.     I.   'Come along to the 100 Club,' she said, 'they're screening The G...

Sex Pistols: Friggin' in the Riggin'   (Virgin Records, 1979) [1]     I.    As many readers will recall, The Great Rock 'n'...

  Joe, Johnny, and Jello in their pre-punk days   One of the defining characteristics of punks back in the day, was that they hated the comp...

All the curly young punks: Michael Collins and Adam Ant (top row)  Mick Jones and Me (bottom row)*     I.    Short spiky hair - often dyed a...

Film director Julien Temple (the punk generation's Jean Vigo)     Born on this day, in 1953, the British filmmaker Julien Temple is - wi...

Laura Oldfield Ford Ferrier Estate (2010)     I.   Many years before Laura Oldfield Ford published her Savage Messiah [a] , the Specials h...

Mick Jagger punking it up whilst performing on set during the making  of the video for 'Respectable' (dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 197...

Public Image Ltd: Memories   (Virgin Records, 1979)     "Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of pain."     I. ...

Messrs. Fisher & Brand     I.    One of the more unexpected consequences of the media storm surrounding the allegations of rape, sexual...

Johnny Rotten on Jukebox Jury (30 June 1979) Jimmy Pursey on Jukebox Jury  (4 August 1979)   I.    As disussed in a recent post, Jimmy Purse...