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Sex & Drugs & Herring rolls: Punk's Jewish Roots Revealed

Nick Hasted, The Independent, 26 February 2014

PUNK ROCK'S transatlantic fuse was lit when Malcolm McLaren saw Richard Hell in New York in 1975. McLaren, whose Jewish family background was in the East End rag trade, was already running the King's Road boutique, Sex, with Vivienne Westwood.

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