At the end of November 1976, the band and
members of the Bromley Contingent created a storm of publicity by swearing
during an early evening live broadcast of Thames Television's Today programme.
Appearing as last-minute replacements for Queen, band and entourage were
offered drinks as they waited to go on air. During the interview, Jones said
the band had "fucking spent" its label advance and Rotten used the
word "shit." Host Bill Grundy, who had earlier claimed to be drunk,
engaged in “repartee” with a very young Siouxsie Sioux, who declared that she
had "always wanted to meet" him. Grundy responded, "Did you
really? We'll meet afterwards, shall we?" - Wikipedia
So it was in the wake of this that I
remember listening to a phone in show with biddy after biddy phoning in to
complain about the "disgusting" punks. I remember several calls
giving the definition of punk - "it's rubbish" or "it's a fungus
that grows on rotten wood". and so on. Maybe the first time I felt
consciously like youth in the post rock and roll sense.
It didn't change me overnight but
something began to eat away at me.
Something else affected me too, made me
realise I was in a bubble and completely out of touch. And It obviously
bothered me - so while i was listening to my Dad's Beatles and Johnny Cash
records, etc. at home, I hadn't realised that the other kids were getting hip
and down with the new sounzz of the 70s. a conversation with a posh friend at
school set me straight on that one. Johnny Cash just wasn't cool, no matter how
much I argued it was. Ironic really considering how “cool” he became years
later after the mainstream rediscovered him.
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