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Screenshot from the video for 'Rise'  Single by Public Image Ltd. (1986) [1]       I.    One of the things that someone who values c...

She's Dead I'm Alive I'm Yours (feat. Sid Vicious)  Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood  Seditionaries (1978)     I.    Cre...

Brooke Bond Tea Card Album: Flags & Emblems Of The World (1967)   Dead dreams, dead dreams flying flags / Flapping in the breeze, wave y...

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) Master of the argumentum ad hominem   I.   Academic philosophers, who like to take a serious and professio...

Geordie Walker (1958-2023) and Keith Levene (1957-2022) [1]   November, it appears, is a mortally dangerous time of year for post-punk guita...

Public Image Ltd: Memories   (Virgin Records, 1979)     "Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of pain."     I. ...

Johnny Rotten on Jukebox Jury (30 June 1979) Jimmy Pursey on Jukebox Jury  (4 August 1979)   I.    As disussed in a recent post, Jimmy Purse...

Johnny singing his heart out on The Late Late Show Eurosong 2023 Special   RTÉ Television Centre, Dublin (3 Feb 2023)     I.    Sadly, Johnn...

The Damned - Rat Scabies, Brian James, Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible -  proving that whilst punk rockers never die, they do, sadly, grow ...

    I.   I've mentioned before on this blog how the word hello has long held a privileged place in my personal vocabulary: click here . ...

Johnny Rotten and Billy Bragg (28 October 1983)     I.    Despite the cynical brilliance of 'This Is Not a Love Song' [1] , it's...