Savage, Jon. Sex pistols and punk

Savage, J. (2012) Sex pistols and punk [Versión para lector digital]. Faber & Faber.

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Destacado: their first ever gig‚


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Destacado: ‘Whether they were good or not was irrelevant‚’ says Andy Czezowski: ‘I wanted to be excited and they filled a spot.’ Performers are only as interesting as the emotions that they generate, or the situations that they catalyse: the audience gives them their power


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Destacado: There were no guitar solos, it was just simple songs. They did five and that was it: goodnight


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Destacado: That reaction was, at first, composed of 50 per cent indifference, 25 per cent hostility, 20 per cent hilarity and 5 per cent immediate empathy.


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Destacado: From the very first, the Sex Pistols polarized and galvanized their tiny audiences. ‘We started getting a reaction instantly‚’ says Paul Cook, ‘so we thought we must be doing something right.


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Destacado: if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalis


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Destacado: I think the media side of it was very well controlled. It was presented as a package all the time. Graphically it was all together


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Destacado: McLaren, with his ignorance of the music business, refused to take the easy route. He wanted to avoid the standard Pub-Rock circuit, with its pecking order and its stock responses, but in the pre-video age, live exposure was still the way to gain attention. After studying the music press, McLaren realized that there was still a lively college circuit, but after a few calls, he found that the name ‘Sex Pistols’ tended to trigger a reaction that, although satisfyingly negative, failed to result in bookings. The


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Destacado: My sister was a Go-Go dancer; that was one of my routes for getting out. I used to go with her on her dates, to the Gilded Cage, the Trafalgar: I loved it, bright lights, total unreality.