Taken from The New Statesman 20th October, 1967.
The art of punk posters: From the Sex Pistols to the Clash, how poster design helped spread the rebellious reputation of punk.
After the Party: Music and the Black Panthers -
Musicians don’t often end up on FBI watch lists, but the Last Poets did, thanks to their links with the Black Panthers. The Guardian’s Dorian Lynskey looks back at a time when pop and politics collided as never before.
Shyness -
“So stand up and be counted, shy ones. Or actually, stay right where you are: discreetly off-center, quietly contrarian, wafting your complex vibes across the room. Refuse to be noisy. Refuse to be brassy. Be bold: Be shy.”
“Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally of coarse nerves, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual…” — Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
BBC Archive - In Their Own Words: British Novelists - Interviews with remarkable modern writers
Stewart Lee: my life on the shelf -
What happens to a man who compulsively collects comics, books, records and CDs? He becomes very good at building shelves…
Come on Pilgrim offered twisted rockers and ballads, guitar-scarred and coddled, celebrating incest and animals and sex so fine (with an elevator operator). They’re charged with a sound as rewarding as scab-picking was when you were a kid. Gleefully reckless. Good nasty fun. The Pixies have the eerie depth of old souls, yet their average age of 22 explains their eagerness to offend, to aurally jar and generally rock people off their mental axis.
Reflex magazine review of Come on Pilgrim, May 1988
“Bollocks to Morrissey at Wolverhampton, to The Sundays at The Falcon, to PWEI at Brixton - I’m already drafting a letter to my grandchildren telling them that I saw The Stone Roses at the Haçienda.” — Andrew Collins in NME
Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins: A life in pictures
The Stones and the true story of Exile on Main St.
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Tweet -
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity…”
“I’ve probably had my day in the sun. I think I’ve influenced a lot of comic book writers.” — R.I.P. Harvey Pekar (October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010)
BBC Archive: The Battle of Britain - Memories of 'Britain's finest hour'