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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...

Messrs. Lawrence (1885-1930) and Valentino (1895-1926)    Oh Mister Rudolph Valentino / I know I've got the Valentino blues   And when ...

The Rock Steady Crew in a Charisma Records  promo photo (1983)     I.    Apparently, the Rock Steady Crew are still a thing even today; inde...

Get Off Your Knees and Hear the Insect Prayer   I.    When I came across a reference the other day to the Ant People, I immediately thought ...

Jordan as SEX punk (1976)  and Worlds End pirate (1981)   'Twas a sunny day when I went to play down by the deep blue sea   I jumped abo...

Fig. 1: Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the U.K. (EMI, 1976)   Fig. 2: Kazimir Malevich: Black Square (1915)      I.   It's hard to resist lov...

Sex Pistols: 'Submission' (1977) [1]   I.    According to Rotten's recollection, it was Malcolm who suggested the band should wr...

Image adapted from one used as part of the Wake Up Punk project  conceived by Joe Corré and Nigel Askew     I.    When I was a young child...

(EMI Records, 1980)     Consisting of seven original tracks written by Malcolm McLaren and the trio of Ants he'd persuaded to abandon Ad...

Lucien Freud: Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995) [1] I.    According to the 15th-century English monk and poet John Lydgate: 'You can ...