Bow Wow Wow
Jon Savage, Face, The, October 1980
Pop, that disposable distraction, is mostly about transience: its the order of the perpetual child, the moment! Not that those last long these days. Most people forget the dynamics of what began, industrially, as excess trash. A blinga a blanga / A bippety bop / Im going down to the record shop yeah!
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