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13 Jan 2025

Serge Gainsbourg: l'improbable artiste reggae

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Serge Gainsbourg and his Jamaican cohorts  (including Sly & Robbie)     I.    Joe Strummer and Mick Jones of the Clash were not the only...
11 Jan 2025

Where Every White Face ... Remembering That Time When the Clash Went on Their Very Own Dreadlock Holiday

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  They got the sun and they got the palm trees ...  I'd stay and be a tourist, but I can't take the gun play   I.    As we all know,...
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29 Nov 2023

On Punks, Hippies, and the Boy in the Blue Lamé Suit

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  Joe, Johnny, and Jello in their pre-punk days   One of the defining characteristics of punks back in the day, was that they hated the comp...
7 Nov 2023

From Beatlemania to Dyschronia: Some Thoughts on 'Now and Then'

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Screenshot from the official video (dir. Peter Jackson)  for 'Now and Then', by The Beatles     I.    As a young child, I was never ...
2 Jul 2023

Rioting: The Unbeatable High (With Reference to Current Events in France)

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For a note on these images see [1] below     Probably there are quite a few songs about rioting and I suppose they might be classified as a ...
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17 Jun 2023

Poor Little Jimmy (All He Wanted to Do Was Be a Sex Pistol)

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The Sham Pistols: Jimmy Pursey, Steve Jones, Dave Treganna, and Paul Cook Photo by Paul Slattery (July 1979)     James Timothy Pursey - or J...
18 Jul 2022

How Do I Understand the Flies?

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Joe Strummer, lead singer of the Clash, looking pensive and posing a question  that has intrigued punks, philosophers and entomologists alik...
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22 Dec 2019

Screamin' Jay Hawkins: He'll Put a Spell on You

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Because you're mine ... I. Never a favourite with the NAACP, Screamin' Jay Hawkins played with black racial stereotypes an...
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14 Aug 2019

Witches' Brew 2: We're in Love With Janie Jones, Whoa ...

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Janie Jones displaying her hex appeal Marion Mitchell - better known by her professional name, Janie Jones - began her showbiz ...
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5 Sept 2016

They Don't Shoot White Women Like Me ...

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Photo by Alex Klavens:  Protestor at a Black Lives Matter event Boston, MA (4 Dec 2014) Someone I used to know back in the day ...
23 Apr 2016

(No) Sympathy for the Rich

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Christian Michel In wake of the recent publication of the so-called Panama Papers, the French libertarian writer Christian Michel adv...