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For many early participants, the death knell came on 28 October 1977 with the release of Never Mind the Bollocks. Had the revolution come to this, something as prosaic and conventional as an album?
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STEVEN MORRIS (New Order drummer): We used to check out the clubs in New York.... We didn’t dance, though, didn’t dance! It takes Ecstasy to make a white man dance.
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Pub quiz night! Q: who is this “We”?
‘We wanted to look like we came from Vegas, so we went to Carnaby Street and hired this very camp tailor who used to make clothes for Marc Bolan [...] ‘It’s 1982, so he probably hadn’t been asked to make a gold lamé suit for nearly a decade.’
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On the Gang of Four
A Brecht fan to the point of having a picture of him on the walls of his Edinburgh flat, Bob Last incorporated alienation effects into the artwork of Damaged Goods. ‘The group sent me a letter that was very precise about what they wanted on the cover,’ he says. Enclosed was a newspaper clip with a photograph of a female matador and a bull, along with a caption of dialogue: [cont'd]
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