Songwriting and Production
Your first tour with Blondie was opening for Iggy Pop and David Bowie. What did you learn from watching them perform? There was a certain amount of improvisation in their performances. It wasn’t robotic, and the passion was there. Mr. Pop is passionate. It’s pretty obvious he’s kind of a wild guy, but he has…
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“Don’t accept the old order,” Johnny Rotten drones monotonously as he clips his nails for ITV’s cameras. “Get rid of it.” Host Janet Street-Porter was the rare mainstream journalist sympathetic to early punk, documenting the original vibrancy as record company contracts were first offered to the new order Rotten represented. Refreshingly, the reportage eschews all…
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No watching unless you go to the link at the bottom of the page By Calum Slingerland Published Mar 07, 2019 As part of a screening event for Epix’s forthcoming docuseries Punk, a host of genre icons got together this week for a panel discussion. Unexpectedly, some serious punk rock angst was captured onstage rather than…
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John Lydon, the 62-year-old punk legend, was in New York for a new documentary about Public Image Ltd. But first, he wanted to shop and smoke in a bar. “Don’t trust adults,” John Lydon said. “They’ll steal everything off you.”CreditCreditGeorge Etheredge for The New York Times By Alex Williams He arrived on the pop culture…
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A fast history of punk legends The Damned. Includes: gob, vomit, cider, sulphate, haunted mansions, Cheesey Wotsits, arguments, breakdowns and mad, bad and dangerously loud rock music Source: The Damned: an epic tale of fast living and faster music – Classic Rock Ummmm, pretty much all of this is taken word for word from the…
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