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Nah. They're not into mop-head hair cuts, and fancy suits these days the way the Beatles were. Oh, I know they shop in the same stores. Only now those stores are called things like "Seditionaries," and the like. I know that we seemed pretty seditious to you in those days, ma, falling head over heels for a so-called "English Invasion." Pretty unpatriotic. And these kids today, now I know they ain't half as revolutionary as the Beatles were. I mean, yeah this guy Johnny Rotten, he may advocate anarchy and other such things, but we know he ain't a patch on John Lennon's ass as far as revolutionaries go. Hell, Rotten takes on the Queen, but remember, it was Lennon who started all that stuff about the Beatles being more popular than God. I mean, taking on the cosmos, now that was heavy. | Nah. They're not into mop-head hair cuts, and fancy suits these days the way the Beatles were. Oh, I know they shop in the same stores. Only now those stores are called things like "Seditionaries," and the like. I know that we seemed pretty seditious to you in those days, ma, falling head over heels for a so-called "English Invasion." Pretty unpatriotic. And these kids today, now I know they ain't half as revolutionary as the Beatles were. I mean, yeah this guy Johnny Rotten, he may advocate anarchy and other such things, but we know he ain't a patch on John Lennon's ass as far as revolutionaries go. Hell, Rotten takes on the Queen, but remember, it was Lennon who started all that stuff about the Beatles being more popular than God. I mean, taking on the cosmos, now that was heavy. | ||
Some of these young guys today though, they remember. For instance, there is this one fellow, his name is Nick Lowe, and he just put out an album called Pure Pop for | Some of these young guys today though, they remember. For instance, there is this one fellow, his name is Nick Lowe, and he just put out an album called ''Pure Pop for Now People''. Yeah that's a great title I know, recalling as it does those halycon days of yore when there used to be such a thing as a "now look." Complete with short skirts — (have you noticed how Yves Saint Laurent is bringing back 'the mini-skirt this summer? hmmm...) — and scrawny, under fed young men driving said mini-skirted girls through the streets of London in supercharged Mini-Coopers, those little box-like cars the English kids drove and hopped up the way American kids do Volkswagons. Those days when Rod Stewart was still known as "the Mod." When he was good: when he still sang rock 'n' roll. | ||
But then I suppose we should have expected as much from Nick. He is, after all, the brains behind that whole Stiff Records scene over there. Stiff Records are the people who have taken the whole English punk scene, as they call it, under their wing — sort of the way Sire "Get-Behind-The-New-Wave-Before-It-Gets-Behind-You" Records has sheltered the young New York rockers. Has given them a home. Who else, after all, is going to worry about a guy like Ian Druruy, who calls his band, "The Blockheads"? Or a freak like Elvis Costello, who also might just happen to be a genius? | But then I suppose we should have expected as much from Nick. He is, after all, the brains behind that whole Stiff Records scene over there. Stiff Records are the people who have taken the whole English punk scene, as they call it, under their wing — sort of the way Sire "Get-Behind-The-New-Wave-Before-It-Gets-Behind-You" Records has sheltered the young New York rockers. Has given them a home. Who else, after all, is going to worry about a guy like Ian Druruy, who calls his band, "The Blockheads"? Or a freak like Elvis Costello, who also might just happen to be a genius? | ||
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