Wilkinson, David, Worley, Matthew and Street, John (2017) 'I Wanna See Some History': Recent Writing on British Punk. Contemporary European History, 26 (2). pp. 397-411. ISSN 0960-7773

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Abstract

Tucked away on the b-side of the Sex Pistols’ third single, ‘Pretty Vacant’ (1977), is a cover version of The Stooges’ ‘No Fun’. The song had long been a staple of the Pistols’ live set; on record, however, Johnny Rotten chose to open the track with a diatribe against those attempting to imbue the punk culture he helped instigate with broader socio-economic, cultural or political implications. ‘Here we go now’, he snarled, ‘a sociology lecture, with a bit of psychology, a bit of neurology, a bit of fuckology’.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies University of East Anglia > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	17 Oct 2016 10:00
Last Modified:	08 Apr 2022 00:13
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/60945
DOI:	10.1017/S0960777316000357

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