He also rebuffed another suggestion that he should use the proceeds to buy 28,000 guitars and give them to young people to restart the punk movement. “Punk rock to me is not about music,” said Corré. “I don’t know what 28,000 guitars would really do.”
Empty also because £170k is chumps change. In London you can’t buy a room with that, let alone a house; and even in the unfashionable NorthWest of England you’d struggle to find a decent 4-bedroom house for less than 200k. It’s the sort of inheritance a civil servant working for a small town council could leave.
Unless there was a missing “m” after that number, it’s basically irrelevant. The founder of Agent Provocateur probably spends more than that on breakfasts every year.
The huge political gap between Johnny and Joey Ramone made me like that band even more. The fact that they didn’t let their political differences get in the way of their music was commendable. (Side note: I saw them in the 80s and suffered tinnitus for several days afterward. By day three I thought it was permanent, but it went away later that evening.)