“The teddy boys were waiting for Elvis Presley. Everybody under twenty all over the world was waiting. He was the super-salesman of mass-distribution hip. Unfortunately he had to be white. Otherwise one of the Chicago blues singers, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Howlin’ Wolf, would have done. He had to play to large audiences in the south. He had to have the cowboy/Spanish element. He had to have the Adonis profile. He had to have the overtones of the queerboy’s pin-up, the packed jeans, the sullen long-lashed eyes, the rosebud mouth, the lavish greasy hair and gilded drag.”

Jeff Nuttall
Bomb Culture (1968)

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“Marcel Duchamp once said that his life had been devoted to removing the preciosity of art. Liverpool was the place where his idea paid off.”

Jeff Nuttall
Bomb Culture (1968)

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