Have suddenly focussed on the fact that the usual May Day holiday on Monday has been moved by this shower of shit government to next Friday for VE Day: this country has been totally infantilised. GET OVER THE FUCKING SECOND WORLD WAR
Jon Savage
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Jon Savage
@JonSavage1966
The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture is published by Faber and Faber 6 June 2024
Joined August 2015
- RIP Jamie Reid, best known as the designer for the classic Sex Pistols era 1976-79. His ability to render complex ideas in eye catching visuals was their perfect accompaniment. He and I did a book together in 1987: it’s a good one
- Richard Penniman was an outrage in 1956 - nothing like him had been seen before. He was black, had been a drag queen and was extremely flamboyant. Tutti Frutti broke before Heartbreak Hotel in the US. Here he is, total punk in 1956
- I’m obsessed with this image. The shoddy, nondescript parking lot where the spell was finally broken. A fitting location for the televised moment that power ebbed away
- So sad to hear about Jordan. I was honoured to write the intro to Defying Gravity: she was a legend and an inspiration - the first Sex Pistol. Pics from Derek Jarman's 1977 photobook and with Neil Tennant from the BL May 2016
- RIP Tom Verlaine: Midnight sirens under dark shellac sky: my visual invocation of Marquee Moon, February 1977
- I’ve spent a long time pondering this but I think Mumford and Sons might be the worst group ever. Today. (Obviously being very successful is a key factor here)
- Released OTD 50 years ago: one of my favourite albums ever. When I was younger, I lived this record
- RIP Shane MacGowan - here’s a snapshot from when our lives intersected in late 1976: the Evening Standard, 14 January 1977
- 45 years ago OTD this was released. It’s a commonplace to say that records changed your lives but this one really did. It sped up time
- J.G.Ballard, High Rise, first UK edition 1975. Great design, and prophetic of punk and much else
- It was forty years ago today: Joy Division play Kant Kino in Berlin 21/1/80, concert organised by Mark Reeder. Hermann Vaske took colour photos
