'I wanna see some history': Recent writing on British punk

Wilkinson, David, Worley, Matthew and Street, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9650-063X (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
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Cultural Politics, Communications & Media
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy
Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 17 Oct 2016 10:00
Last Modified: 21 Jul 2023 09:43
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/60945
DOI: 10.1017/S0960777316000357

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