Public Image Limited poster pasting brigade, 1980

Darby Crash is on the left with Pat Smear on the far right

Photos Gary Leonard

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Public Image Limited poster pasting brigade, 1980

Darby Crash is on the left with Pat Smear on the far right

Photos Gary Leonard

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Outside CBGB before a Sunday hardcore matinee.

Photo by Drew Carolan

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49 years ago today
The BBC announced a ban on the new Sex Pistols single 'God Save The Queen' saying it's, "in gross bad taste".

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Fur Dixon 🥰

She was the first bassist to perform live with The Cramps, playing during their "A Date With Elvis" tour in 1986.

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Released 46 years ago

"Police Truck"—the B-side to "Holiday in Cambodia."

Too good and too important to be released merely as a B-side.

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Happy Birthday to Nicholas Bowen "Topper" Headon, drummer of the punk rock band The Clash from 1977 to 1982 – born on this day in 1955 in Bromley, Kent, England.

Photo by Pennie Smith

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45 years ago
Black Flag in the parking lot near their rehearsal space in the South Bay, May 1981

Photo by Ann Summa

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49 years ago today
Warsaw (later renamed Joy Division) debut at the Electric Circus, 29 May 77, supporting Buzzcocks & Penetration

📸 Kevin Cummins

The flyer and adverts mistakenly called the band Stiff Kittens. They never used this name

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