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Arts > Music > Punk > late-1970s - early-1980s
December 21 1977,
and le tout punk rock are out in force for
the opening night of the Roxy in Covent Garden,
a tiny club leased for three
months by Andy Czezowski, Generation X's manager.
Looking dapper at the centre of Erica Echenberg's photograph is John Lydon,
already a star of the scene with the Sex Pistols;
on the right is Mark P, the young editor of the punk fanzine Sniffin' Glue.
On
the left is Brian James, songwriter and guitarist of the Damned,
NME journalist
Nick Kent and James's then-girlfriend Julie Nylon.
"Brian dumped her that night," recalls Echenberg, "and started up with me.
She
stubbed a cigarette out in my face. They were lovely people, you know."
Snapshot: Opening night at the Roxy club
The Guardian Film & Music
p. 4 7.7.2006
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/image/0,,1814284,00.html
punk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/punk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/29/sex-pistols-queen-jubilee-boat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/29/loud-flash-punk-posters-fanzines
Vivienne Westwood
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/vivienne-westwood
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/03/vivienne-westwood-cool-earth-environment-fashion
dance-punk band > LCD Soundsystem
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/lcd-soundsystem
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/07/lcd-soundsystem-announce-final-concert
Poly Styrene, the Raincoats and
the Slits - punk's most radical figures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/08/gender.arts
Poly Styrene
best known as the frontwoman with
1970s punk group X-Ray Spex
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/poly-styrene
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/arts/music/poly-styrene-brash-frontwoman-of-x-ray-spex-dies-at-53.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/26/poly-styrene-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/26/poly-styrene-dies-aged-53
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/apr/26/poly-styrene-x-ray-spex?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/23/poly-styrene-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/04/punk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/08/gender.arts
The Clash > Punk
legend Joe Strummer dies 2002
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,11711,864833,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,864992,00.html
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,865018,00.html
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,865018,00.html
The Clash > John Graham Mellor
/ Joe Strummer 1952-2002
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,864854,00.html
Big Audio Dynamite
early-80s
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/jan/20/big-audio-dynamite-clash
John Lydon > Public Image Ltd
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/arts/music/20pil.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/06/john-lydon-public-image-limited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/06/john-lydon-public-image-ltd
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/jul/21/john.lydon.denies.racist.attack
Sex Pistols manager > Malcolm
Robert Andrew McLaren 1946-2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/malcolm-mclaren
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2010/apr/22/malcolm-mclaren-funeral
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/apr/22/malcolm-mclaren-minute-of-mayhem
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2010/apr/09/malcolm-mclaren-carnage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/09/malcolm-mclaren-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/09/mclaren-punk-dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/music/09mclaren.html
The Sex Pistols > John Lydon, also
known as Johnny Rotten
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/consumer_goods/article5651501.ece
The Sex Pistols > Sid Vicious,
Steve Jones, Johnny Rotten and Paul Cook
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/sexpistols
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/sex_pistols/index.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/18/sid-vicious-death-icon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/31/sex-pistols-ireland-police-investigation
Sid
Vicious dies of drug overdose 1979
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1404116,00.html
Sex Pistol Vicious on murder
charge 12 October 1978
Punk Rocker Sid Vicious arrested
on suspicion of murder
after the body of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen was found in their New York hotel
room
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/newsid_2543000/2543439.stm
The Sex
Pistols > Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols >
the 1889 Indecent Advertisement Act > 1977
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1639072,00.html
The Sex pistols > interview
- December 1, 1976
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1140796,00.html
punk legend
http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3219842
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1305793,00.html
The Sex pistols > John
Lydon / Johnny Rotten
http://www.johnlydon.com/jlhome.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/
anarchy-in-barcelona-as-lydon-is-accused-of-racist-attack-on-singer-873744.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/greatinterviews/story/0,,2154895,00.html
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1204478,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3444151.stm
Buzzcocks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/buzzcocks
The Ramones
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/ramones
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/07/in_1979_a_movie_with.html
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,11711,1305793,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2034883,00.html
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/image/0,,1762873,00.html
http://film.guardian.co.uk/Film_Page/0,4061,1257110,00.html
Johnny Ramone / John William
Cummings 1948-2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/16/arts.usa
punk in pictures
http://gallery.redferns.com/gallery_2/gallery_text/exhibition_cover_pages/p-i-p_cover_page.htm
Derek Jarman 's
dystopian satire > Jubilee 1977
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2130165,00.html
The Jam > Paul Weller
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2010/mar/28/paul-weller-life-in-pictures
The Jam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/dec/15/band-reunions-smiths-led-zeppelin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2008/dec/09/paul-weller-jam?picture=340537769
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/09/paul-weller-soundtrack-will-hodgkinson
Skins and Punks
by Gavin Watson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2008/nov/03/skins-punks-gavin-watson?picture=339283258
goth punk
America's west coast / California punks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/14/california-punk
Revealed: how the Sex Pistols shook Ireland
Wednesday 31 December 2008
The Guardian
Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent
This article was first published on guardian.co.uk at 00.01 GMT on Wednesday 31
December 2008.
It appeared in the Guardian on Wednesday 31 December 2008 on p9 of the UK news
section.
It was last updated at 00.03 GMT on Wednesday 31 December 2008.
They raged against the Queen and the "fascist regime", and
noisily agitated for anarchy in the UK. But in the late 1970s the Sex Pistols
were considered just as much of a threat to Ireland and its traditional Catholic
moral values, it emerged yesterday, as state papers revealed the extent of
official concern about the prime instigators of the punk revolution.
The Sex Pistols were targeted in a 1978 Irish police investigation aimed at
protecting the country's morals, the papers revealed.
At a time when the IRA was intensifying its campaign of bombings and
assassinations the Garda Síochána turned its attention towards Johnny Rotten,
Sid Vicious, Steve Jones and Paul Cook and the sale of their first album Never
Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. The papers include a garda memo on
the force's concerns about the title of the band's LP and whether it breached
Ireland's once rigid censorship laws.
"The title on the sleeve ... would indicate that the contents of the record is
obscene," a garda inspector wrote.
The album was referred to Ireland's censorship board. The Irish deputy assistant
chief state solicitor suggested the record sleeve might contravene the Indecent
Advertisements Act. "However, the penalty on conviction cannot exceed IR£2 and
in all circumstances you may feel that prosecution is not called for," the law
officer advised the garda.
The Irish state did not carry out its threat to fine record stores displaying
the album. Soon after, Virgin Records successfully defended itself against
British obscenity charges relating to the LP at Nottingham magistrates court.
Revealed: how the Sex
Pistols shook Ireland, G, 31.12.2008,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/31/sex-pistols-ireland-police-investigation
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