Jon Savage, The Face, October 1980
Pop, that disposable distraction, is mostly about transience: it’s 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 / I’m going down to the record shop — yeah!
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