I'm doing a bit of research about the British Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the heroine herself and the locally popular year of 1977 crops up again.
This is what Will Self writes in the Guardian (that's right - The Guardian. Why not, from time to time?):
"One of the saddest spectacles of the Diamond Jubilee is all those old punks getting nostalgic for 1977. Confirming that 1977 has replaced 1968* as the year that the edgier sections of the chattering classes love to bore on about, and that ageing punks have replaced ageing hippies as the most nostalgic generation, this longing for the old days of the Sex Pistols and “Anarchy in the UK” shows that it isn’t just royalists and little old ladies who hark back to the past.
[...] You can’t open a newspaper at the moment without seeing a grey-haired one-time punk staring out, telling us what it was like in the good old days. [...] They all believe that their punkish reaction against the Silver Jubilee in ’77 – when they sang along to ‘God Save the Queen’ by the Sex Pistols and wore that t-shirt showing the Queen with a pin through her nose – was 'very important… historically' ".
*...actually, never mind. I feel mature enough without rubbing it in.
*...actually, never mind. I feel mature enough without rubbing it in.
PS I've alwayd had huge respect for the strength of Punks' convicions, while at the same time having a huge issue with how poorly thsoe convictions had been thought-throuth (if at all). Noise was a problem too, but I my attitude changed dramatically when some Punk bands learnt to play.
