In Defence of the Sex Pistols
Paul Yamada, unpublished, 1985
ANY SERIOUS study of rock music should sift through the history to discover outbreaks, accidents and ruptures in and, of rock, that offer themselves as provocative critiques of Totality and its culture.
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