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In his absence, the Pistols’ moral and creative bankruptcy would see them bringing in train robber Ronnie Biggs and singing jovial songs about Belsen.
Concurrent to all of this was a wealth of activity in the great crater they had left on their original detonation, with much of it impacting on Top Of The Pops, under the banner of new wave, a quirkier, more codified take on punk’s reset to basics. Some of it was highly intelligent, a remaking of pop with a sense of irony and of pop-as-commodity: The Rezillos’ Top Of The Pops, for example, which they performed on the show, reaching No 17. Or there was X-Ray Spex, fronted by Poly Styrene, using plastic product to critique both sex symbolism and consumerism on the likes of The Day the World Turned Day-glo.
Elsewhere, however, new wave seemed to be a mere matter of jerkiness and guttural vocals a la Elvis Costello. He was masterful, his acolytes on Stiff Records less so. The dreary Airport by The Motors, meanwhile, felt like an example of the moltenness of punk cooled right down to a grey functionality. XTC, led by Andy Partridge and influenced as much by Beefheart as punk, were angular, competent but no more, while Squeeze were craftsmen, creating durable, South London-inspired songs for the ages, without exciting any great revolutionary impact.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة October 2023 من Record Collector.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة October 2023 من Record Collector.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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!["Things can go very badly wrong"](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/27225/1667243/9RLKRiRZf1713427040892/crp_Bruce-Dickinson-Iron-Maiden-The-Mandrake-Project-Joel-McIver.jpg)
"Things can go very badly wrong"
But not too often. The Iron Maiden singer, aviator, business mogul and awardwinning everyman, Bruce Dickinson, returns with a new solo album, The Mandrake Project – Top 10 across the planet at the time of writing – and a ton of anecdotes about his extraordinarily successful career. Just don’t try and put him in a box. “I’m not a number, I’m a free man!” he warns Joel McIver.
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Out Of The Darkness
Long-anticipated solo debut from Portishead singer is worth the wait
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Clearing The Way
The end of an era for Bolan's glam-rock trailblazers.
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SOCK IT TO ME DISC-ITS! WHEN TWO TRIBES VINYL AND CD (AND CASSETTE) WENT TO WAR
Dream, if you can, a courtyard. An ocean of violets in bloom. Alternatively, a 1984 record shop and all its pristine treasures. Close your eyes, let’s go there together. What do you see? From chest-level down – vinyl.
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Steve Harley 1951-2024
As frontman for Cockney Rebel, the singer-songwriter crafted one of the glam rock era's greatest singles in Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me).
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The Collector
Swiss-based Icelander Sunna Margrét is a rising force in experimental pop. Having begun her career as a teenager touring with electro-pop ensemble Bloodgroup, she is about to release her debut full-length solo LP, Finger on Tongue.
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She'd only Just gun
With their rapturous harmonies, the Carpenters dominated the 70s’ airwaves, selling over 100 million records with hits like Close To You and Yesterday Once More. But by 1979, lead singer Karen was seeking a new direction… Biographer Lucy O’Brien recounts her attempts to move out of the restrictive environment of the family band that had made her a star
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PNEUMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE
Forming in West Berlin in 1980 and achieving their greatest notoriety circa 1984, industrial noise-punks Einstürzende Neubauten have far e xceeded t he i r p ro jec ted l i fe expectancy. Founding frontman Blixa Bargeld traces the evolution of the metalbashing pioneers. Jeremy Allen is all (suitably protected) ears
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FRUITS OF THEIR LABOUTES
Bananarama had their first Top 3 hit in 1984, Robert De Niro's Waiting. Rob Hughes meets lifelong friends and bandmates Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward as they look back on their career, album by album
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Being Soaring.
In April 1984, the original, faster Bobby Oproduced version of West End Girls was released.