Fact #184693
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The first review of a live Sex Pistols gig appears in NME, when editor Neil Spencer reviews their slot earlier this month at The Marquee Club, London, England, UK, Europe, supporting Eddie and the Hot Rods. “I waded to the front and, straight away sighted a chair arcing through the air … then I saw it was the singer who'd done the throwing.” Spencer defines them as "a quartet of spiky teenage misfits, playing 60's-styled white punk rock." Speaking with Spencer later, they tell him "Actually, we're not into music. We’re into chaos."
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Jarvis Cocker (vocalist/songwriter, Pulp) : Punk kind of established a Year Zero, which made it interesting because you weren’t really allowed to reference things from the past, even though people ended up doing that. So you had to invent a new form or go to something that was completely out there, that couldn’t be perceived as part of the old order.
Mike Oldfield (musician) : With punk, it felt like the musical world in general couldn't think of how to continue, so the best way was to destroy it all completely, which personally I think was a disaster. You can bet your life that, for those people who beat up others on the street, their hero will be Johnny Rotten rather than me.
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd, speaking in 2002) : I had no feelings about punk. It passed me by. I’ve never listened to a lot of music because I’m too busy making my own. I probably wouldn’t recognise The Clash if I heard it on the radio but I do know that a lot of people felt they were great and I can respect that.
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Mike Oldfield (musician) : With punk, it felt like the musical world in general couldn't think of how to continue, so the best way was to destroy it all completely, which personally I think was a disaster. You can bet your life that, for those people who beat up others on the street, their hero will be Johnny Rotten rather than me.
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd, speaking in 2002) : I had no feelings about punk. It passed me by. I’ve never listened to a lot of music because I’m too busy making my own. I probably wouldn’t recognise The Clash if I heard it on the radio but I do know that a lot of people felt they were great and I can respect that.
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