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Article: Music: God Save The Queen; THINK AGAIN MAAN... 25 YEARS AGO ROCK REBELLED AGAINST THE SILVER JUBILEE, LED BY THE PISTOLS.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 31, 2002
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Byline: GAVIN MARTIN
Back in 1977, the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations were marked by a vibrant and rebellious outpouring of British rock 'n' roll energy. A nation of frustrated safety-pinned youth, alienated from both the ruling establishment and the rock aristocracy, had been building up a head of steam since the previous year.
Punk rock hadn't just turned the tables on the music business. Bands such as the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned had reduced them to matchwood and used them to light a funeral pyre topped off by the ...