“You don’t write ‘God Save the Queen’ because you hate the English race,” said Johnny Rotten in 2000, “you write a song like that because you love them, and you’re fed up with them being mistreated.” Sex Pistols were a reaction. Britain was in a recession. There was a garbage collector strike. There was a […]
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