Punk: I Fought The Biz And The Biz Won (How We Got Here From There)
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 1 February 1986
PUNK: IT MADE OUR DAY...It's been ten bleak winters since...well, we look back in hunger at the years youth reclaimed rock and for a while made it burn again. Over the next month we're running the definitive scam on the ricts, rucks, records and ramalamadingdong, from the Pistols to pinheads, Strummer to Siouxsie, the Roxy to the Ramones. This week: CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY charts a Generation's course from Blank to bankable.
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