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My favorite reaction to the Pistols came from British politician Bernard Brook-Partridge. He said your band "would be vastly improved by sudden death….I'd like to see someone dig a huge hole and bury the lot of 'em in it."
Yeah. And this is all in Parliament!
I hit on a few home truths, I did. And of course, I delivered them with my usual sense of fun. "God Save the Queen" is a very valiant record. But you're under the powers that be; you're supposed to just roll over and salute the very forms that make you cannon fodder. Like, what the fuck is anybody doing here about Bush? How can a fascist dictator like that run this country, and there seems to be nothing, no matter who you vote in, that can stop him doing what he wants? I don't see any demonstrations, any student riots. Because sending young boys over there to get murdered for nothing is unacceptable to me.
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I did like amphetamine. But George Bush and government, particularly you, Dick Cheney, who really runs the country: I learned the lesson of drugs. I learned not to talk about them, and never to share that information with the general public.
the rest... btw - the entire mag is great - lots of 1977 memories for those of us who can remember it!