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Showing posts with label the great rock 'n' roll swindle. Show all posts
13 Mar 2024

My Night at the 100 Club (Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated?)

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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...
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4 Mar 2024

It Was on the Good Ship Venus ...

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Sex Pistols: Friggin' in the Riggin'   (Virgin Records, 1979) [1]     I.    As many readers will recall, The Great Rock 'n'...
12 Dec 2023

Foucauldian Thoughts on Never Mind the Bollocks

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Cover design by Jamie Reid for the Sex Pistols' compilation album  Flogging a Dead Horse (Virgin Records, 1980), featuring the gold  di...
26 Nov 2023

Happy Birthday Julien Temple (and in Memory of Malcolm McLaren)

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Film director Julien Temple (the punk generation's Jean Vigo)     Born on this day, in 1953, the British filmmaker Julien Temple is - wi...
12 Jun 2023

Why Bambi is Forever Being Killed in My Imagination Thanks to the Sex Pistols

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My photo of a local fawn and a poster for the Sex Pistols' film soundtrack The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1979)   Some readers...
21 May 2023

Hooray for Male Hosiery

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Men's tights by Gerbe  (the famous French hosiery manufacturer, est. 1895)   I.    There are not many advantages to being diagnosed with...
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13 Jul 2022

Punk Moth (Or How the Cambridge Rapist Motif Haunts the Natural World)

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Fig. 1: Pretty little moth in my front garden / Fig. 2: A colour enhanced detail from the wing Fig. 3: Jamie Reid God Save the Cambridge Rap...
16 Apr 2022

Chrysopoeia 2: Volpone (He's the Fox - the Fox with the Golden Brush)

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Aubrey Beardsley:   Volpone Adoring His Treasures (1898)   Good morning to the day; and next, my gold:  Open the shrine, that I may see my ...
31 Mar 2021

Can Anyone be a Sex Pistol?

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  Anson Boon / Johnny Rotten     I.    For whatever reason, I'm still thinking about Danny Boyle's new six-part series based on the ...
30 Dec 2020

I'll Put a Knife Right In You: Notes on the Case of Sid and Nancy

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Sid and Nancy indulge in a little knife play for the camera Photos by Pierre Benain (1978)  snapgalleries.com     Sex Pistol Sid Vicious ha...
18 Jul 2019

Young Flesh Required: Notes on Punk and Paedophilia

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A banned promotional image for The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle Designed by Jamie Reid (1979) I. Cash from Chaos Some o...
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13 Jul 2019

If You Only Palpitate to Murder / No One is Innocent

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Jamie Reid: God Save Jack the Ripper (1979) One of a series of posters designed by Reid for The Great Rock 'n' Roll...
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13 Oct 2018

Sid Vicious: My Way

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Sleeve art for the 7" single release (Virgin Records, 1978)  from the album The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle  (Virgin Reco...
12 Oct 2018

A Sex Pistol in Paris

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One of the more amusing scenes in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle features Sid Vicious wandering the streets of Paris i...
8 Sept 2018

In Memory of Liz Fraser

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Liz Fraser in Carry On Cruising  (1962) I was very sorry to hear of the passing two days ago of busty British beauty and much-...
2 Aug 2018

Why I'm a Sex Pistol Rather Than a Clash City Rocker

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A Seditionaries Destroy shirt  McLaren and Westwood (1977)  Victoria and Albert Museum Collection According to Mick Jones, speak...