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'This Searing Light,The Sun and Everything Else', The Oral History of Joy Division published by Faber and Faber 4th April 2019
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Have suddenly focussed on the fact that the usual May Day holiday on Monday has been moved by this shower of shit government to next Friday for VE Day: this country has been totally infantilised. GET OVER THE FUCKING SECOND WORLD WAR
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RIP Jamie Reid, best known as the designer for the classic Sex Pistols era 1976-79. His ability to render complex ideas in eye catching visuals was their perfect accompaniment. He and I did a book together in 1987: it’s a good one
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Richard Penniman was an outrage in 1956 - nothing like him had been seen before. He was black, had been a drag queen and was extremely flamboyant. Tutti Frutti broke before Heartbreak Hotel in the US. Here he is, total punk in 1956
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I’m obsessed with this image. The shoddy, nondescript parking lot where the spell was finally broken. A fitting location for the televised moment that power ebbed away
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So sad to hear about Jordan. I was honoured to write the intro to Defying Gravity: she was a legend and an inspiration - the first Sex Pistol. Pics from Derek Jarman's 1977 photobook and with Neil Tennant from the BL May 2016
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RIP Tom Verlaine: Midnight sirens under dark shellac sky: my visual invocation of Marquee Moon, February 1977
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I’ve spent a long time pondering this but I think Mumford and Sons might be the worst group ever. Today. (Obviously being very successful is a key factor here)
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Released OTD 50 years ago: one of my favourite albums ever. When I was younger, I lived this record
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RIP Shane MacGowan - here’s a snapshot from when our lives intersected in late 1976: the Evening Standard, 14 January 1977
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45 years ago OTD this was released. It’s a commonplace to say that records changed your lives but this one really did. It sped up time
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J.G.Ballard, High Rise, first UK edition 1975. Great design, and prophetic of punk and much else
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It was forty years ago today: Joy Division play Kant Kino in Berlin 21/1/80, concert organised by Mark Reeder. Hermann Vaske took colour photos
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Very sorry to hear the news about Pete Shelley. Buzzcocks were true innovators and a wonder: they took me to Manchester and were a major part of why I moved there. Here's one of my favourite pictures of him, taken by Linder Sterling in 1976: Punk as fuck
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This was always one of my favourite promo items that Jamie Reid did for Sex Pistols: the postcard that was sent out to promote Holidays In The Sun. There was even talk of a video
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OTD in 1967, in the early morning, Brian Epstein died. Without him, no Beatles as a mass success, maybe no 60s s pop culture. A true visionary - he said they would be bigger than Elvis way before they were - and liberator. 1964 portrait by Robert Whitaker
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The climate of enforced compliance around Royal events: Nearly 46 years ago, I attended the Sex Pistols boat trip, one of the only protests against the Silver Jubilee. Many arrests. Nothing changes, and England’s still dreaming
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Bought OTD 50 years ago: a real revelation this, in retrospect the start of the path to UK punk - with a discussion of the word by compiler Lenny Kaye. Too many picks but A Public Execution and Moulty always did it. Great phasing on Psychotic Reaction too
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Going through some old files, found this artwork Derek Jarman for a proposed England's Dreaming cover. With gold leaf, 1991
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Just been alerted to this wild and menacing footage, never seen it before: the Rolling Stones on the David Frost show late 1968. Sympathy For the Devil: Jagger on fire in Turner mode, Brian Jones fading, Keith Richards incandescent
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Bought OTD in 1969: a defining record of my teenage years and an all time favourite that deserves all
the plaudits and more. ‘Write the rules in the sky/ But ask your leaders why’
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This always cheers me up. The alternate Intel Video of We Can Work it Out, filmed late November 1965. Lennon tries to make McCartney laugh throughout the mimed performance and succeeds in driving him into hysterics:
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Johnson trying to stay on until the autumn: Leave Means Leave
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Bought OTD in 1969: an all time favourite, every second inhabited. Irresistible sweet/ sour from an integrated group that reveals its full anger and disgust over time. All tracks are great, but key for me is Live and Let Live: ‘you made my soul a cell’
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RIP Fiona Adams. Here is a contact sheet of her groundbreaking 18 April 1963 shoot with the Beatles on Euston Road: London and four young men in the process of rapid change
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Bought OTD in 1971: first UK release with gatefold. It still sounds like a rupture: lo-fi production, deadpan tales of marginal street life fantasies and, on Venus in Furs, John Cale’s seductive, destabilising viola. The edge of the world, then
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Another day, another announcement - very sorry to hear about the death of Astrid Kircherr, the woman who held up a mirror to the Beatles to show them who they were and who they could be. Signed photo of Stuart Sutcliffe, c1961
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Well we always knew that this bunch of Tories hate culture, art - even life itself - and Sunak's statement confirms it. We are the enemy, and they are our enemy
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Sounds Kraftwerk cover, November 26 1977. The first New Musick issue, created in defiance of UK punk. Steven Lavers (RIP) did the cover feature. Inside were articles on Eno, Devo, Throbbing Gristle, the Residents + editorials by me and Jane Suck
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Buzzcocks were not macho like the Clash or other lesser punk groups. Thanks to Pete they treated sex and gender with a sly wit and killer tunes. This is one of their best and one of the best ever songs about sex: Orgasm Addict
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Watching
#ItsASin
last night brought back many memories and emotions - of how it was to be gay in 1981. Too many to go into here so here's a pic of me from the same year, quite the dandy, by the great Sheila Rock
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This wonderful record was 50 years old yesterday. It is short, uncompromising, and perfect
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Ian Curtis’ hand written lyrics for Atrocity Exhibition, Atmosphere and She’s Lost Control - on display at Collection, the John Rylands Library from tomorrow until January 2023
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Late to this interesting piece about the resurgence of the CD
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RIP Wayne Kramer: doing the slide here on one of the MC5’s greatest songs, Looking At You, followed by another of their greatest, American Ruse. 1970 forever
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RIP Burt Bacharach - this is a total masterpiece
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RIP Chris Bailey - I loved the Saints in 1976 and 1977. Watch them totally shred in this April 1977 live clip from Paddington Town Hall: definitive punk rock:
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OTD in 1979 Factory and Zoo held the notoriously under attended Leigh Open Air Pop Festival. No transport and oppressive police made for a sparse audience, but the best of Manchester and Liverpool made up for it. Joy Division were transcendent
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RIP Mary Weiss, singer of the fabulous Shangri-Las. Here they are, the full four, performing Give Him A Great Big Kiss on Shindig in 1965. Their sings had real teen content
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RIP Jeff Beck: the Yardbirds were the sound of my early adolescence in W London. Could have chosen Heartfull of Soul or Shapes of Things but this live TV appearance on Shindig! is extraordinary - what Beck does with the guitar!
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Loving Pet Shop Boys at Glastonbury: song choice, staging, remodelled arrangements, banger after banger - warm feeling
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More from that 1977 Pentax reel: Long Acre, Covent Garden - just outside the old Sounds office above the tube station. Centre Point and Post Office Tower in distance. Never Mind The Bollocks poster with Bollocks blacked out, dating it to November 1977
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Found a bunch of old postcards in a forgotten box (there are many such in the attic). Sex Pistols promotional postcards for Holidays In The Sun, October 1977 - design by Jamie Reid
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1977: revolutionary song (Buzzcocks) revolutionary design (Malcolm Garrett), revolutionary image (Linder Sterling) - the Punk Pinnacle
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Tony Wilson letter/ rant to Malcolm McLaren, late summer 1977
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RIP Keith Levene - this track is one of my favourites from the whole late 70s period. Just him and
@realjahwobble
with a few cymbal taps. A melody worthy of Vaughn Williams
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Jamie Reid news story in the Guardian
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The shadow that stood by the side of the road/ Always reminds me of you
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Bought OTD in 1971, great album, love the whole thing (even Student Demonstration Time) but: Long Promised Road 💥 Surfs Up 💥 and especially Feel Flows 💥💥Special mention for Lookin’ At Tomorrow, with mega phasing
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21 January 1980: Joy Division play Kant Kino Berlin. The show isn't too great but the colour pictures by Hermann Vaske are
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Original psychedelic/ LSD badges from 66-68 - just because
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Celebrating
@NeilYoungNYA
and his stand against Spotify, here’s the first album of his I ever bought - in November 1969. It went very deep and it’s remains my favourite
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Bought OTD in 1970. Cheap. People were getting rid of their 60s albums. A keynote 1967 album and the haunting, hallucinatory work on which Syd Barrett’s reputation is built. Astronomy Domine, Flaming and Matilda Mother still sound fresh and extraordinary
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Bought OTD 50 years ago: one of my favourite albums ever. It was great on acid (disclaimer: have not taken said drug since 1974 nor would necessarily advise)
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Listening over and over to the title track - an astonishing and beautiful piece of music
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Bought OTD in 1971: huge album at the time. Cornerstone of classic rock as defined later: side 1 impeccable with tender love songs and the still astonishing Baba O’Riley. Side 2 climaxes with epic Won’t Get Fooled Again. Teenage Wasteland enters the lexicon
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Bought OTD in 1970 - 43 years ago. My favourite Who album in mono, under a quid. The concept is brilliant, the songs sublime and, on Armenia and Relax, the most psychedelic that the Who ever got
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Bought OTD in 1972. 18/-. I didn’t know anything about the group. It looked like an album by the Hare Krishnas and it intimidated me slightly but the radiant sun pulled into what is the greatest psychedelic album ever
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I’ve missed this for years but someone’s just told me that the guy second left with the twisted expression as he gazes on Sid is Paul Dacre - fantastic picture by Bob Gruen
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Bought OTD 50 years ago - along with Ziggy, the game changer: a dizzying mix of pop cult nostalgia, stylised high vocals, hard rock guitar, oboe/ synth sound experiments- and it didn’t even include The Hit
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In memory of Richard H. Kirk, a Cabaret Voltaire setlist from 1978
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Bought OTD in 1971. People couldn’t take it then but I loved it - the amphetamine / Alice Bailey title track, the soft creepiness of Here She Comes, the brainburst of I Hear Her Call My Name but Sister Ray is the one: cleared a room with it several times
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RIP David Crosby - the most inscrutable, intemperate and charming Byrd. And the 55 years afterwards: superstardom, great solo album, descent into hell and rebirth - what a life. Here he is, stoned and foxy, August 1965
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Pre-order now for new comp, out end January- singles 1977-79: Punk, Post-Punk, Dub, Euro Disco, Neo Psych and New Wave. Title suggested by Siouxsie, Cover photo by Ruby Ray
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Pre Punk reading 3: this dystopia was a major, if subterranean influence in so many ways. The tower block imagery was directly injected into the punk mainstream and the bleak view of human nature again fitted the moment. First ed. from 1975
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Looking at the photographs of Johnson last night in Brussels, I am profoundly ashamed that this creature is representing the UK on the international stage. What his mere presence says about our national degradation
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Bought OTD in 1971: one of my favourite albums ever and a much-used trip guide. All killer no filler but the Change Is Now/ Old John Robertson segue is definitely in a higher key
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Also every Buzzcocks release was a complete artwork, thanks to great design by
@malcolmgarrett
and, in the early days, Linder Sterling. Here's an ad for album 1, from the magazine she and I made with New Hormones, the Secret Public
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Bought OTD in 1971: this was bashed as well. The last album with Sandy Denny and the justly celebrated Brit folk move: Come All Ye, Marty Groves, Tam Lin. Favourite track: The Deserter. Dark overtones enhanced by the Folk Horror back cover
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Bought OTD 50 years ago today - daunting black on black with brain bursts at the start of each side, a moment of sibilant sweetness, and the ultimate room-clearer, Sister Ray - my friends couldn’t take it but I loved it
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Fifty years ago today I bought this record. It scared me, and my friends thought I was mad. Some laughed. But it was strangely comforting to my teenaged soul
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Bought cheap OTD 50 years ago: inescapable then. No title or group name on the cover - a terrific first side that dribbles out into dog barks. Second side is proto ambient
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RIP Seymour Stein - music industry veteran since the late 59s, from King through to Sire, Talking Heads Madonna The Smiths er al. A true gay pioneer. Remember him for this if nothing else
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Vaccinated today. Thanks
#NHS
and we’ll do all we can to stop you being predated by the ghastly government
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Very shocked to hear the news about Richard H. Kirk. I did one of the very first CV interviews in April 1978 and have remained in touch ever since. As well as CV, his work with Sandoz is extraordinary. This is a favourite: Luminous
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On the anniversary of Derek Jarman's death, here's the record of the first time we met, May 1977, at the Television/ Blondie gig at the Hammersmith Odeon. Derek was polaroiding young punks for Jubilee extras
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45 years ago, the Silver Jubilee bank holiday was on June the 7th. I was on the Sex Pistols boat trip: not much fun but cathartic - the only protest. The aftermath: I'm bottom right in the fleck coat as the cops push people around. McLaren centre right
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Another playlist perennial. Why wouldn't you? A classic early synth pop record - both sides
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Recognising the death of Stuart Sutcliffe OTD 60 years ago: painter, Beatle and touchstone. Signed portrait by Astrid Kircherr, whose leather jacket he wears
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The very beginnings of Mod? The '58 Italian look, from the Daily Sketch, January 1958
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Bought OTD in 1971: almost a VU album with five songs from the Reed/Morrison/ Cale axis, three from Jackson Browne, one apiece from Tim Hardin and Bob Dylan. Brainburst: the eight minute It Was A Pleasure Then
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Bought OTD in 1970: the pinnacle for me. Songs I liked then and now: Astral Weeks, Madame George. Song I can’t get out of my head: Slim Slow Slider
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Fifty years ago this week I bought this album from a school friend. Mesmerised by A Sailor’s Life, obsessed with Genesis Hall - a deceptively gentle song about prejudice and hate
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Yes, I’m enjoying Pistol. Humour, vulnerability and compelling performances. Once you ease past some historical inaccuracies, it’s great. Props to the actors - especially Toby Wallace, Sydney Chandler and Thomas Sangster - and the set design
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September 1968: Vibrations Issue
#10
- Jonathan Richman's famous VU article, with flow chart!
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Am really enjoying this emotional, passionate and precise memoir of a life saved by Rock’n Roll
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Bought OTD in 1971. On some days this is my favourite VU lp: the big hitters on Side 1 are wonderful but I love the secret heart on Side 2: I’m Beginning/ I’m Srt Free/ That’s the Story. Murder Mystery is thrilling and Afterhours the perfect comedown
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Johnny Rotten in the first Sex Pistols promo photo sequence, by Peter Christopherson in February 1976, in and around the Denmark St studio. Rejected as being too weird, I seem to remember
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Happy New Year from my May 1978 self, amazed to have got this far and hoping THAT 2022 will see a reduction of populism and COVID (Polaroid by Linder Sterling, location Whalley Range)
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Happy birthday to Bernard Sumner: pic by Daniel Meadows, taken January 1980 at Pennine Sound Studios (Sound of Music/ These Days/ LWTUA v1 session)
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