Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/06/19/2020-tv-news-segment-on-the-c.html
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An extreme element of new-wave is what is known as punk, a British phenomenon.
journalism at its finest.
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Nice find. Always interesting to look back and see the outside view of a part of my past.
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well, it took going through london for punk to take off in the states. many outlets at the time called it a british thing, especially because of the pistols, and didn’t realize there was a stateside origin until later.
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Yes, apparently the punk movement had subsided by 1979.
Also
The Birth Of Punk in 60 seconds (Bill Drummond): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df4RA-5MuNk
The Death Of Punk in 60 seconds (Bill Drummond): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6J1VetL1S0
I hate people when they’re not polite.
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Me too. That makes me tense and nervous, like I can’t relax.
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I have seen far more alarmist reporting on the same subject from the same period. In fact two things came to mind during this story
1 lack of overt alarmist reporting
2 How smarmy that record exec was. It is like Paul Shaffer based his smarmmy SNL Polydor record producer schtick on this guy
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