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...world he left behind so quickly had still not quite recovered from the changes he brought down on it. In England, the punk rockers who are raising such a ruckus, spooking the music business and intimidating their elders, turn themselves out just like the Elvis of the '50s, in tight pants and defensive snarls. Their unadorned, assaultive music tries for the same fierce simplicity Elvis seemed to achieve so effortlessly. Back in Memphis, hysteria prevailed. Guards were posted outside the mausoleum to keep fans and fanatics from laying waste to the burial grounds. There were to be fresh shipments...
...glitter of Hollywood began to show signs of tarnish shortly before World War II, when studios-and their owners and stars-began moving to the flossy, faddish suburbs. The original Hollywood neighborhood had deteriorated to the level of seedy respectability when hippies and a punk element, turned on by drugs, arrived in the mid-1960s. From 1969 through 1975, the robbery, burglary and homicide rates in Hollywood climbed nearly twice as fast as for Los Angeles as a whole; narcotics and liquor violations rose more than five times as fast. Last year there were 2,168 prostitution arrests in Hollywood...
...Hell of Punk Rock...
...want to feature stories like punk rock, I suggest you create a new section called Perversions. There is no way these kids could be considered simply rebellious. Anyone who would wear raw meat on the front of a costume is trying to do more than merely rebel...
...Punk rock is nothing new. Punkism was a disease I suffered from myself. It's a pose that should not be taken seriously, nothing more than addlebrained adolescents playing naughty dress-up, bored children looking for attention...