tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198093860812764649.post4644756681460076702..comments2023-11-30T08:39:53.401+00:00Comments on Pop Bothering Me: A Great Friggin' Swindle? Sex Pistols, School Kids and 1979Richard Osbornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10350016416456483382noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198093860812764649.post-62446202974296243952016-11-08T19:10:31.767+00:002016-11-08T19:10:31.767+00:00Hi Richard. I believe we may have worked together ...Hi Richard. I believe we may have worked together at MCPS? Just (belatedly!) read your article on 'FITR'. For years I've thought that the first Pistols song I heard was 'Pretty Vacant' (on the Annie Nightingale show some point in 1983 aged 12). Thanks to your memory jog, I now realise it was actually 'FITR' when I was about 9, in the form of older kids singing it at the back of the schoolbus. Sounds from your article that you have a few years on me. As a 6 - 8 year old at the time you write about, I well remember those bands beginning to appear on TOTP, but my peers and I simply didn't conceive of them as 'punk' (which hadn't impinged on our consciousness) or indeed anything other than pop bands, but ones who looked odder and did funnier, more entertaining things than other acts on the show. I'd conjecture that this is why my age group were subsequently so open to / into Adam & the Ants, 2-Tone, and the New Romantic-type bands; they fitted in well with what we already perceived as standard pop presentation. Anyway, thanks for a really interesting and (in my experience) accurate assessment. Glad to hear you're going onward and upward! Jane Farrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03727881272062369249noreply@blogger.com