Features
Wednesday, July 18 2007
Part 3: Curtis Mayfield to The English Beat (1970-1980)
"Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine, go down .." Julie Andrews sang in Mary Poppins. Indeed, a bitter dose of angry words in need of saying, and set to a beat, quite effectively gets heard.
Reviews
Thursday, April 2 2009
The Sex Pistols: There'll Always Be an England
Temple first provides the background out of which the boys and indeed, the whole punk movement emerged, before going on to debunk some of the myths and to substantiate some others.
Wednesday, July 27 2005
The Sex Pistols: The Great Rock and Roll Swindle [DVD]
Still, 250 hours of footage, and none of it showed up on this DVD...? Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
Wednesday, July 17 2002
The Sex Pistols: self-titled
As the Pistols geared up for the release of 'God Save the Queen', scores of youths, scattered around Europe and elsewhere, sensed the imminent revolution: They dismissed David Bowie and Gary Glitter as bourgeois, listened to 'Anarchy in the UK', and as the last act of defiance, wore safety pins on their school uniforms.
Blogs
Friday, November 19 2010
Counterbalance No. 10: 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols'
The Spirit of ’77 abounds as the Sex Pistols round out the Top Ten on the Big List. Mendelsohn and Klinger take a cheap holiday in other people’s misery. Right. Now.
Friday, April 9 2010
World's Famous - The Death and Life of Malcolm McLaren
Through a string of genre-hopping musical explorations, he was at best a visionary, at worst a journalist in thrall to the sights and sounds of the streets, whether those found in the Bronx or Johannesburg or Vienna.
