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Showing posts with label paul gorman. Show all posts
12 Nov 2025

An Open Letter to Simon Reynolds on Malcolm McLaren and the Art of Living Like a Hobo

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Simon Reynolds and Stephen Alexander    I.   Thank you for your remarks on a recent post entitled ' Destroy Success ' (7 Nov 2025), ...
25 Oct 2025

Who Was That Young American Press Lady?

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Lee Ellen Newman: Press Goddess  Charisma Records (c.1983) I.   As Paul Gorman reminds us in his excellent biography, when Malcolm McLaren p...
2 Oct 2025

Russ Bestley: 'Turning Revolt Into Style' (2025): Notes on Chapters 6-8

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Russ Bestley:  Turning Revolt Into Style  (Manchester University Press, 2025) Stephen Alexander (à la Jamie Reid):  God Save Russ Bestley  (...
30 Aug 2025

The Sex Pistols - Who the Dickens Were They?

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Malcolm McLaren:  Oliver Twist Manifesto  (42 x 32 cm) Double-sided flyer created for the Sex Pistols' final British show  Christmas Day...
22 Aug 2025

On This Day ...

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Sex Pistols: Johnny Rotten, Glen Matlock, Steve Jones, and Paul Cook Photo by John Gray (1975)     I.    I know that English historians who ...
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21 Aug 2025

In Praise of Hobble Skirts and Bondage Suits

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Jordan and Vivienne having a fag break outside Seditionaries in 1977  wearing bondage suits as a fashionable young Edwardian  in a hobble sk...
18 Jul 2025

That Time I Met Mr Pickle ...

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  I.    One of my favourite scenes in  The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle  (1980) is the closing animated sequence in which McLaren and...
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