This day – 1977 – The Pistols put out ads for their new single ‘Holidays in the Sun’, featuring the classic cartoon cover with lyrics from the song serving as dialogue. A real collector’s item and a great example of Pop Art on Punk Art:
One year later Sid Vicious will be on stage in Max’s Kansas City, having been and gone with The Pistols. With him on vocals the band is Arthur Kane and Steve Dior on guitars and Jerry Nolan on drums. They play some Dolls songs, some Stooges songs and the covers Vicious is known for such as ‘Stepping Stone’ and ‘Something Else’ (the man didn’t have a big repetoire).
This day 1981 in NME Neil Norman published a review of trans-star Divine; ‘…the Man-Girl itself… bursts through hastily erected paper screen like Mae West on Steroids… [singing plus] a couple os stories about the making of Pink Flamingoes and that scene’. Divine is not only Protopunk for her trash-glam style, subversive behaviour and appeal to bad tastes, but was also a part of the early New York scene. She was involved with The Ramones, The Heartbreakers and Wayne County and played all the clubs with them. Rebellious Jukebox remembers the gone, and tried-to-be-forgoteen Divine!
And finally, this day 1977 Stiff Records put out Hits Greatest Stiffs, The independent label stopped producing its early singles but the demand didn’t go down, so now record shops are selling 7-inches for extortionate prices. Therefore, Stiff release a compilation of their most desired tracks. To celebrate, I’ve made a youtube playlist recreating the album (except for the Plummet Airlines track which I changed cause I couldn’t find the original) – listen here!
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