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Punk still cops the main headlines though with Rotten being beaten up in a car park and '''Paul Cook''' gets attacked with an iron bar… '''Henry Bowles''' is pushed to his death though a plate glass window by bouncers at the Bell in Kings Cross… everyone except the Pistols goes to Mont De Marsan for the second French punk festival where '''Captain''' lobs stink bombs onto the stage during the Clash’s set, gets elbowed off and lands with one leg painfully either side of a fence, poor boy… | Punk still cops the main headlines though with Rotten being beaten up in a car park and '''Paul Cook''' gets attacked with an iron bar… '''Henry Bowles''' is pushed to his death though a plate glass window by bouncers at the Bell in Kings Cross… everyone except the Pistols goes to Mont De Marsan for the second French punk festival where '''Captain''' lobs stink bombs onto the stage during the Clash’s set, gets elbowed off and lands with one leg painfully either side of a fence, poor boy… | ||
The punk exploitation sets in with masterpieces like ‘Live At The Vortex’ and bands like Eater, Cortinas, Unwanted, Worst, Maniacs, Art Attacks, Wasps and Skrewdriver while '''Jimmy Pursey''' manages to get his name in the news for the first time by being arrested for playing a gig on a roof top … Elvis Costello busks on the pavement outside the CBS convention in London, gets arrested and finally signed by CBS in America as people start to wonder if they’re famous, nasty, stupid, obnoxious enough to be in Mr Bitter and Twisted’s Little Black Book – he rounds off the year as one of the participants on the first Stiff tour, finishing a close second to [[Ian Dury]]… | The punk exploitation sets in with masterpieces like ‘Live At The Vortex’ and bands like Eater, Cortinas, Unwanted, Worst, Maniacs, Art Attacks, Wasps and Skrewdriver while '''Jimmy Pursey''' manages to get his name in the news for the first time by being arrested for playing a gig on a roof top … '''Elvis Costello''' busks on the pavement outside the CBS convention in London, gets arrested and finally signed by CBS in America as people start to wonder if they’re famous, nasty, stupid, obnoxious enough to be in Mr Bitter and Twisted’s Little Black Book – he rounds off the year as one of the participants on the first Stiff tour, finishing a close second to [[Ian Dury]]… | ||
[[The Yachts]] point to the wind of change lying through their teeth as they claim “We don’t want to sleep with girls, we want to marry them”… the year when everything was ‘burning’, preferably in a fanzine, the Islington Gazette interviewed Johnny Rotten’s mum and [[Nick Lowe]] was still in the pub. | [[The Yachts]] point to the wind of change lying through their teeth as they claim “We don’t want to sleep with girls, we want to marry them”… the year when everything was ‘burning’, preferably in a fanzine, the Islington Gazette interviewed Johnny Rotten’s mum and [[Nick Lowe]] was still in the pub. |
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