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Poster design for Pretty Vacant - The Story of Punk & New Wave   (Not exactly Jamie Reid, is it?)     I.    Shortly before he died in Ap...

The Surrealist and the Sex Pistol:  André Masson and Malcolm McLaren Photos by Man Ray (c. 1930) and Joe Stevens (1976)     I.    When asked...

Sid Vicious Versus the Crucified   (SA/2024) [1] The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life;  Sid Vi...

Screenshot from the official video (dir. Peter Jackson)  for 'Now and Then', by The Beatles     I.    As a young child, I was never ...

(L) SA wearing a pink gingham check shirt from Child of the Jago [1] (R) Ken Doll wearing a pastel pink and mint green striped  two-piece be...

Alien Ant Farm lead vocalist Dryden Mitchell and Bubbles lookalike in the video  for their 2001 version of Michael Jackson's 'Smooth...

Nancy Spungen (1958-1978)   What d'you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with  a society that abandons her and treats her like tra...

John Beverley, aged 16, in his pre-punk days  prior to becoming Sid Vicious, Sex Pistol. Me, aged 16, in my post-punk days, but still sporti...

Keith Negley: Self-Harm (2019) keithnegley.com     I.    Self-harm is an interesting phenomenon: one that the German philosopher Byung-Chu...

Sex Pistols Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten on stage at the  Longhorn Ballroom, Dallas, Texas (Jan 10, 1978)   Belsen was a gas I heard the o...