January 1985
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January 1985
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... This, I would argue, brings a fresh perspective to studies of the Sex Pistols, whose importance to music and popular culture has been widely explored in related literature. The ur-text treating the group and their centrality to the Punk rock movement remains Jon Savage's England's Dreaming (1991); other texts regularly referenced in surveys of the UK Punk scene include Laing 1985, Boot and Salewicz 1997, Robb 2006, Strongman 2007, and Worley 2017. Such studies, authoritative in tone and exhaustive in research, prioritise the music, the fashion and the attitude: the Pistols' film work is duly noted across these volumes' habitually chronological coverage, but it remains essentially (and understandably, if focusing on 1975-1980) secondary in nature. ...
January 1985