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Article: England's Dreaming: Anarchy, the Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond.
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- The Washington Monthly
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- April 1, 1992
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Jon Savage. St. Martin's, 27.95. Since punk rock's demise--arguably on January 14, 1978, when the Sex Pistols' lead singer, Johnny Rotten, walked off stage for the last time in San Francisco muttering, "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"--punk has been analyzed by countless sociologically inclined pop critics. Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces took an ambitious, if occasionally preposterous, stab at linking punk to every disruptive impulse since the sacking of Carthage; Simon Frith and Howard Horne's Art Into Pop picked apart the naive myth that punk was an "eruption from the gutters of inner-city recession" and showed instead that it was instigated mainly by ...
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