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...around London, the Clash sings straight to-and, in a sense, even speaks for-a generation of working-class kids not only cut off from the social mainstream but disaffected from the smug, cushy sounds of most contemporary pop. Stateside, the audience is different: students, trendy punks, artists and camp followers who cruise the punk periphery like tourists looking to score a season box for the apocalypse. No wonder that, after only the first American date, Joe Strummer was already sounding a little homesick...
...handbags ... maternity ... pianos ... Ginsberg in the tearoom." What's this? Howling Allen Ginsberg, aging (52) poet-priest of'50s beat and '60s yippiedom reading his work in a Brooklyn department store? "Why not?" replies Ginsberg, as he prepares to recite such poems as Dope Fiend Blues, Punk Rock and Plutonian Ode. His familiar curl-fringed bald pate and face set off by silver granny glasses, he explains: "I get a lot more older people now, especially little old Jewish ladies. But I like a varied audience-little old ladies, homosexuals, weirdos." What he got, along with...
Besides potato intrigue, this week features other groups with large and varied followings. Tommy, DeeDee, Jonny and Joey Ramone are punks in a big way, and they're coming to Boston March 3. This time around they'll be abusive at the Orpheum. If Boston's hidden punk population, making biweekly appearances at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, doesn't satisfy you, dish out $7.50, lobotomy-face, and groove to Ramone goldies like "Slimy Pus Trip," "Your Face Makes Me Puke," and "Shred His Head Until He's Dead...
JOHN LYDON already has his special place in the rock and roll pantheon. As Johnny Rotten (a stage name he now disdains), he fronted the quintessential punk rock band, the now defunct Sex Pistols, and wrote most of the songs on what is arguably the greatest debut album ever, Never Mind the Bollocks. The obvious problem for an artist meeting such staggering early success is what to do next; Lydon's anxious quest for originality, for a break with his "public image," has resulted in Public Image Ltd., for the most part a hopelessly jejune effort that might leave...
DIED. John Simon Ritchie, 21, English punk-rock musician better known as Sid Vicious of the notorious, now disbanded Sex Pistols group; of a heroin overdose, one day after being released on bail from prison, where he was awaiting trial for the October murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, 20; in Manhattan...