When we talk about rock history of the late 1970s, we tend to focus on music that even today resides in a subterranean bunker situated many miles below the surface of what Joe Sixpacks recognize as “real” rock ’n’ roll. For fans of punk and post-punk, the late ’70s were like a reset button on 20 years of tradition, a period when the Sex Pistols, in the words of Greil Marcus, “damned rock and roll as a rotting corpse” and used the music “as a weapon against itself.” But to everybody else—which, in spite of how it might appear to you and those you know, is a lot more people—that rotting corpse never looked sexier. For most rock fans, the late...
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