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Louis Kontoulis, guitarist/vocalist of the (possibly) first Greek punk band Stress, captured here as a 16-year-old back in 1979 in the neighbourhood of Plaka, "a wonderful Babel" as he remembers the district under the Acropolis where nightclubs, discos, rock and gay bars were once located, a melting pot that attracted junkies, beggars, prostitutes, tourists and bar-hoppers and acted as a melting pot for the various youth subcultures of the time and as home of the burgeoning Athenian punk scene in the late-‘70s/early-'80s.

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The late Adrian Borland, genius frontman of The Sound, in an Ian Curtis t-shirt while on holiday in Crete, Greece, back in 1992, a few years after the disbandment of The Sound.

Looking at this photo, one can't help but think of the tragic end which connects those two, apart from the fact they were both the rare kind of talent you only get a few times in each generation and that The Sound seem to take up where Joy Division left off.

faroutmagazine.co.uk/ "…Borland continued to release music in a solo career over the course of the ’90s with limited success, all the while battling with his depression, hospitalised on several occasions for psychiatric care. In 1999, unable to overcome his mental condition, Borland committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving express train near Wimbledon station in London. One can’t help but draw a final parallel between Adrian Borland and Ian Curtis of Joy Division, who more famously met an end by his own hand in 1980… …As the past has told us, the most creative minds among us are also the most troubled. The art of many of these troubled minds will naturally connect most with those who have struggled with similar internal battles…"

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Lux & Ivy, king & queen of rock'n'roll, during an interview in a London Hotel on Feb. 1990, as captured by Rudi Keuntje.

guitarworld.com/: "The Cramps (...) songs were about drugs and sex, monsters and perverts (...) And at their heart was a couple. For all the drugs, deviance and delirium, the story of the Cramps is a love story – the story of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach..." ...Kristy Marlana Wallace, as she was known then, used to pester her older brother Jerry into showing her the basics of guitar playing. “Then when I was a teenager, I got even more interested,” she says. “I had boyfriends that played guitar, and I was more interested in the guitar than I was in them. I would trick them into teaching me things.” By the time she met Lux, then called Erick Lee Purkhiser, she was an outsider and confirmed rock ’n’ roll obsessive (...) In Erick she had met her match. He was as batshit crazy about rock ’n’ roll as she was... Lux: "Well, the first time I went out with her, we went to see a rock'n'roll show, and she wore a see-through dress with nothin' underneath it. That's when I discovered she was an exhibitionist... “Lux and Ivy were rock ’n’ roll names,” she says. “We were 24-hours-a-day rock ’n’ rollers (...) Nobody ever talks to me about music or guitar,” she once said. “I’m the queen of rock ’n’ roll, and for this not to be recognized is pure sexism.” (...) “We were watching some awards show and Lux was like, ‘Aw, you’re kidding! If those guys are the kings of rock ’n’ roll then I must be Elvis fucking Christ!’” (...) “It goes back to the rock ’n’ roll tradition of boasting – like Bo Diddley and Howlin’ Wolf,” she says. “It’s a blues tradition to boast about yourself that you’re the king, with the biggest dick, the biggest queen, whatever.”

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Tower Records | Columbus and Bay, San Francisco | 1979

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Siouxsie and Robert Smith on backstage

📷 by Eugene Adebari (1982)

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48 years ago today

A few months after the release of her debut album Horses, Patti Smith made her UK debut on May 16, 1976 on two nights at the Roundhouse in Camden, supported by The Stranglers

📸 Chalkie Davies

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Joe Strummer wearing a cowboy hat - awesome!

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Poly Styrene performing with X Ray Spex

Photo by Kevin Cummins

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42 years ago today

'The Record' is the debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Fear, released on this day in 1982.

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Malcolm McLaren photographed by David Parkinson in Acre Lane, Brixton, back in 1973 during a fashion shoot for the August issue of soft-porn magazine Club International, promoting items from the shop he owned together with Vivienne Westwood at 430 King’s Road and including male models in the the so-called “Alan Ladd” and “Jazz” suits as well as the car fin detail of a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado.

***all info from Paul Gorman's blog: /paulgormanis.com/?p=13015

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Watching Peter Murphy within almost breathing distance while performing with Bauhaus on their first US gig at Tier 3, New York on Sept. 5, 1980, in support of their debut album 'In the Flat Field', as captured by Eugene Merinov.

Upon arriving at The Iroquois Hotel in NY for their first US tour, the band was all fired up and excited to hit the town for some NY nightclubbing, all but one who preferred to have a quiet night in: Daniel Ash decided to grab a quiet drink in the hotel bar, where, to his astonishment, got to meet two of his all-time heroes, Mick Ronson & Iggy Pop, and also got invited up to his room for a little party. He eventually handed them a copy of their single, “Terror Couple Kill Colonel”. Iggy actually attended their gig at Danceteria one week later and as Kevin Haskins recalls in his book 'Bauhaus Undead':

"...A few numbers in and I hear a heckler yelling loudly above the music and can hear Peter giving back as good as he’s getting. As Peter moved to the right, I looked for the heckler and saw a guy jostling about down the front wearing a motorcycle jacket. It was Iggy Pop! The gig continued with Iggy and Pete launching verbal missiles at each other throughout our set. Afterwards, Iggy came backstage and congratulated us on a great show! He explained that he had a driver outside, and told him he’d only be about 10 minutes, but as we were so good he decided to stay the entire set ... then he was off to some “dark and dangerous S&M club,” and then disappeared into the night..."

***This remarkable photo was sourced from the FB page of former hc punk vocalist Eddie Morgan (Condemned To Death, Ice 9, Balls of Steel), who is also captured in this one (the second kid off the wall), but there are more pix from that particular Bauhaus gig on Eugene Merinov's Flickr photostream.

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The bass guitar Paul Simonon smashed on the cover photo of The Clash's “London Calling”

…The album cover also features one of punk's most iconic images – Paul Simonon ruthlessly driving his Fender bass guitar into the stage of the New York Palladium. “I was just frustrated with the show,” Simonon told Bass Player. “We’d been used to playing to small audiences, but in a lot of places they have an orchestra pit and you're not in contact with the audience anymore. You almost feel like you're miming – getting no feedback. The bouncers wouldn’t let the audience stand up. That frustrated me to the point that I destroyed my bass guitar.”

“The unfortunate thing about the London Calling moment was... I wasn't thinking, 'Oh I've got the spare bass' – crack!’ Y'know? My spare was a new Precision and I didn't really like it: CBS had taken over Fender by then. But on the spur of the moment, I smashed the good one and the next day I realized, ‘Oh shit – now I've just got this stupid thin one.’”

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Siouxsie dancing during a gig with The Banshees at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, in 1980, as captured by Mike “Dawkeye” Dawkins.

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Crime lords: Frankie Fix (centre) and Johnny Strike (right), founding members of Crime, "SF's First and Only Rock 'N' Roll Band' along with Ricky Williams (left), original singer for The Sleepers -and former Crime drummer- as captured by James Stark at the first Sleepers show at the Mabuhay Gardens, December 25, 1977.

According the Sleepers' bio:

"The Sleepers formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1978. Michael Belfer had been trying to form a band with his friend, Tim Mooney, and Belfer had decided he wanted former Crime drummer Ricky Williams for vocals, as "he was so awesome looking". The band released a five-track 7-inch EP in late 1978, and then broke up, with Belfer playing in Tuxedomoon and Williams co-founding Flipper, from which he was fired before the band made any recordings 'for being too weird'."

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13-year old Winona Ryder (next to Allison Hart, another young actress of the mid-'80s) sporting a Clash t-shirt during her first movie audition back in 1984. According to the Reddit thread this was found on, the movie was Desert Bloom and she didn’t get the role but her audition tape made its way to an agency which led her to be cast in her first film Lucas.

Ryder has explained how she was considered 'different' during her high school years, when she used to sport a boy-ish short haircut and dress in menswear -which actually resulted in her getting horribly harassed and bullied at school: "…people thought I was a boy. At the time, I was obsessed with Bugsy Malone but also very into the Clash and the Replacements. I believe my friend cut my hair, and I remember reading somewhere that if you mixed beer and egg whites and put it in your hair, you could get it spiky like that."

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