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Showing posts with label the great rock 'n' roll swindle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the great rock 'n' roll swindle. Show all posts
12 Dec 2024

A Brief Note on the Punk Is Dead / Punks Not Dead Debate

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I.    There is a big secret about The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle : most punks don't like it [1] .    ...
26 Jun 2024

Five Brief Notes on Rockism, Poptimism, and Authenticity (With Reference to Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols)

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Cover by Jamie Reid for the Sex Pistols' single 'Silly Thing'  released from the album The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle ...
26 May 2024

Out of the Punk Ruins and Into the Age of Piracy

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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...
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 ...
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 ...