Saturday, July 08, 2006

God save elementary recordings



Again I want to pass on my personal thanks to John Lydon. You see back in 1977/78, what he did changed my life irrevocably. I know the Sex Pistols were dead in the water by late 1978, but as I was only 9 nine years old then, I had to catch up on the previous 2 years when the Pistols were actually around... the songs Anarchy in the UK, God Save the Queen, Holidays in the Sun and Pretty Vacant gave me music that made sense (it actually makes more sense to me now as a more educated individual than then, as I just liked the anger and the energy at the time). I love the fact that Lydon questions everything and was one of the very few to stand up and say the only use the royal family is to the UK, is as a tourist attraction. This is just as valid a statement now as it was then.... but everyone wants an MBE now, so no one will repeat it. I'm not naive enough to suggest that getting rid of the royal family institution will somehow help the working class in this county, because it won't - there will be a million politicians, solicitors, lawyers and members of the middle classes who will drain any funds spared by the lack of investment in this ancient custom... but surely in this day and age, as a member of a forward looking european society, we have no need for such a glaring example of the divide between the haves and the have nots... Marie Antionette said "let them eat cake" when the poor could not have bread. I say we don't want cake; let us eat bread.

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