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Showing posts with label anarchy in the uk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anarchy in the uk. Show all posts
7 Nov 2025

Destroy Success

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Based on an original design by Jamie Reid (1979) [1]    I.    It's hard to believe that November next year is the 50th anniversary of th...
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24 Jan 2025

Destroy! Notes on a Punk Imperative

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D. H. Rotten in a Seditionaries Destroy shirt [1]     I.    If, like me, you are keen to promote the idea of D. H. Lawrence as a Sex Pistol,...
25 May 2024

Punk It Up (I'm a Sex Pistol Man Oh Yeah!)

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Malcolm McLaren: screenshot taken from the video for  'Punk It Up' (dir. Ian Gabriel): click here .  A Sex Pistol - that's what ...
24 Mar 2024

But Malcolm, They'll Not Be Able to Find It ...

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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...
28 May 2020

I Wanna Destroy the Passerby (Notes on Johnny Rotten as Good Samaritan)

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John Joseph Lydon  (aged six) I. Just as Johnny Rotten's self-description as an anti-Christ is rooted in his ethnoreligious...
19 Feb 2019

And They Dance by the Light of the Moon ...

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A Buffalo Gal as imagined by Mclaren and Westwood  in their Nostalgia of Mud  collection (1982/83)   I. Buffalo Gals  is a popu...
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19 Dec 2016

Carri on Sex Pistols (Comments on the Case of Joe Corré and His Bonfire of Punk)

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Artwork by Jamie Reid  (Virgin 1979) I've been asked to comment on Joe Corré's decision to burn his valuable collection of ...