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character, responsible for some ground breaking music
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double dutch was a classic from the 80s
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Pistols still sound as fresh as paint imo, superb.
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bufalo girls ?
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sad news,
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all this scratching is making me itch
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Natural causes or the usual ?!
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ybor will be the man to ask, info.
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Most rock & roll celebs who die, seem to die of an overdose of some kind, just wondered !
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he was before my time jon..but i did buy 1 of their albums before by accident when i was 16 as i thought it was d prodigy
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Ah, I thought you might mean a tangerine job.
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NMTB - still an amazing album. Has stood the test of time.
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Still play it regularly hear, Doctor.
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a shock - rip !
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makes you feel old when it was your adolesent music
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I'll be sat in a plssy old chair in a granny farm singing pretty vacant one day :(
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Scary - 30 odd years since it was released.
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Got the bootleg Spúnk Rock. Best version of Pretty Vacant.
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jonny is not so rotten now!
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didn't mean now i was thinking of the jungle thing . But they are a british institution.
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Seems like he died of Cancer.
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sorry he's dead. A person of no merit.
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Punk may not have caught on in Wales, what with cavorting Druidry and close-harmony choirs, but outside the third world it was a pretty major cultural phenomenon.
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I have to agree with ybor.
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Irish are lucky 08 Apr 22:00
he was before my time jon..but i did buy 1 of their albums before by accident when i was 16 as i thought it was d prodigy Unlike you this was my age, the great rock and roll swindle, worked the media a treat. Made a song for you irish , pretty vaCNUT Rip mm |
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was he**
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saddened me when i heard, he kind of introduced me to classical music, ie aria on air,madame butterfly, something i had no interest in previously. don,t think you can take away the fact that he was instrumental in bringing about a change in the staid and sober way of thinking at the time which in my opinion was refreshing.
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wrote 1 about you as wll grimster......i dont wanna be me....haha mike
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Ted Grundy show was shockin stuff to my parents :0 -swearing on t.v hadnt been heard of at that time-not on a popular programme anyway -as a young lad nearing my teen years i thought it was feckn great :)
Agree with salmon though that it was all a front hence the great "ever get the feeling you`ve been **ed" comment during their ill fated breaking up gig which was aimed in no small way towards MM As has been said many times before theres a fine line between madman and genius and Malcom McLaren was both imo Happy memories all the same -R.I.P fella |
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Talky Malky...a brave clever man...the world is a poorer place without him.......made a lot of you plebs think didnt he...man of the people..a true punk.
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in my car right now I'm listening to Fred Sonic Smith and Johnny Thunders. I was never conned by foul mouthed English boys with ambitions to advertise butter or murder their girl friends.
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Enjoy your Tea and Scones ybor very virtuous ....Mclarens may not have been everybodys cup of tea but you cant dispute his inluence on Music in the 70s and early 80s..So much better than the dross that is served up these days
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A visionary.Way ahead of his time.Very sad.
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:( What a sad start to the day. He and Lydon changed music, RIP.
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ybor city, jonny thunders was in the new york dolls the first band that maclaren signed, try you tube ,JET BOY new yok dolls to see johhny in action its a classic track, you can see where he got his idea for the pistols, jonny also went on the first sex pistols tour in 1976.with the clash and the damned.
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A master marketing man!
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bill grundy
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Orchardist 08 Apr 21:19
character, responsible for some ground breaking music In what way was it ground breaking music? Apart from the swearing? If you want ground breaking punk that told stories of social significance then listen to early 60s stuff like Substitute by The Who. |
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"i was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth" , could have been written about me .
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