70s to settle entirely into boring ert Plant Mick Jaceer pecame indistinguishable from the rest of that amorphous jet set of fashion acHilc. mOds arEND: V0yel girls, politicians, footballers and movie stars - ind even went into tax exile with the test of them in Only reagae retained any crede hiäty, and is in fact the fasoured personal EMCHIRIL for Johnny Ratten of the Sex Pistols and Joe Strummer The Clash. The Cinsh's rendition of the reggae song Police and Thiever as -minor masterpiece.
Bur Rasta can't pretend to be an answer if you're white. And from schools, colleges and small Musically, punk rock is remarkably similar to British pop music of the mid-60s. Its distinctiveness lies elsewhere: in its lyrical content and in its wider social context. The principal target for the punk fans" withering contempt is the former mainstream of rock, which threatened in the hip-easy-listening for TEM TIEBRE CCC DunE like in the mid-60s Though stil heavily concerned with boy-gir ICIAGOR IE. cover a far wider range of subject UNEMPLOYMENT They're rooted in the white working Class tecnagers" n a Britai Aneste, uten playes (Caree Opportuninles boring work (Duy by Day by Generation X). pop culture (th ork of the X-Ray Spes) and i part real (the songs of The Damned; White Rior by The Clash).
Protest songs — not the sentimental, humanist protest of che carly 60s. hul protest for the mid-70k. One of he only concrele vehicles of a much-needed expression hatreu ot the monarchy during the Jabilee this was the SOTEL SEULELdEU the Queen. It was widely banned, yet reached number one in the SalC COaCES A white working ciass establishment youtf SOUSE mosty sexist wilh a ccaumora of violence period and falling living standards. tras a orceass grownu fascise? It obviously could he wasniaas Scot Own aTEuk AM.u is ofen cross which serves as the symhol for the French But in London. at least. this danger scems to be receding Even Lie patriocic Tory-voting Jam dropped the unson Jack from heir promocional insignia in order lo dissociate themselves trom any piat osa coghechon with the National Front political colour ol mined elsewhere — by the wider halance of fonces an agaressive Summer, Jor Sex Pistols God Saup high unemployment Deather jackets Punk sprayed on walls accompanied by the proto-fascist operating in holed, Gate Carnival O SeatEID LOT adds -NHLET BUC SION Record Mirror interview, guicar- UCZEL ist Mick Jones complains:
The Clash have been pigeon everybody') CENNUTIE political hand on the scene at the We are not Top of che Political Pops. We are not tbe new denders that everyone seem:
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COULTOL OVET HD any control over our Lives. Just ger tossed about like every one eise. Look — political power grows from the barrel of a gun — and I haven't got a gun."
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