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                                              November 27, 2005

   "Please Kill Me" (1996)
   Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain.
                                       FIRST_PUNKS

  "I hated Joan Baez and Dylan --
   every song was a fucking question!"

                 --  John Cale, p. 4


  "Some people thought Patti was this ugly girl, you know,
   back when ugly was a sin.  But she wasn't ugly, it was
   just that nobody dressed like that back then.  She was
   really skinny and dressed weird.  She had this look that
   was completely her own, which in retrospect was a
   precursor to this whole punk thing. She wore these
   espadrille-type wrestler's shoes, skinny black pants,
   and usually a white man's shirt, tucked in, with a Guido
   type of undershirt underneath.  She didn't wear a bra,
   and she had a very gaunt face and very dark hair.  And
   Patti had all these scars on her stomach from when she
   was pregnant.  She'd wear her pants real low and you
   could see all these scars."
                               -- Penny Arcade, p. 92



   "I just thought that Richard Hell was incredible.
   Again, I was sold another fashion victim's idea.
   This was not someone dressed in red vinyl, wearing
   bloody orange lips and high heels.  Here was a guy
   all deconstructed, torn down, looking like he'd
   just crawled out of a drain hole, looking like he
   was covered in slime, looking like he hadn't slept
   in years, looking like he hadn't washed in years,
   and looking like no one gave a fuck about him. ...

   "And this look, this image of this guy, this spiky
   hair, everything about it -- there was no question
   that I'd take it back to London.  By being inspired
   by it, I was going to imitate it and transform it
   into something more English."

                          -- Malcolm McLauren, p.198

   "Richard Hell was a definite, 100 percent
   inspiration, and, in fact, I remember telling the
   Sex Pistols, 'Write a song like "Blank Generation,"
   but write your own bloody version, and their own
   version was 'Pretty Vacant'."

                         -- Malcolm McLauren, p.199

                                                 PISTOL_WHIPPED

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