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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Johnny does the Singles!

 















Posted by SIMON REYNOLDS at 5:04 PM No comments:
Labels: John Lydon, Johnny Rotten, MUSICIANS AS CRITICS, MUSICIANS DO THE SINGLES, NME 1978, SINGLES COLUMN, SINGLES PAGE
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  • Jeremy magazine
    Yvonne Field OBE Archive
  • Fanzine Hemorrhage
    The Offense Newsletter #44
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    The Dark Story of Skip Bifferty | Destroyed by the "Al Capone of Pop"
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    James Hamilton: 21 April 1943 – 17 June 1996
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    Mystery Train 50th Anniversary Celebration (March 7, Oakland)
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    America’s First Music Critics: Daring Advocates of Innovation
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    Shrooms With a View (From the Stump)
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    Thank you, good night
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  • UK Zine Library
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    Stood Up And Spat
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    Its Inmates Absurd: The Velvet Underground at the University of Kent 1971
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    Page 47 - Live Aid Commemorative Picture special Magazine
  • Performance Magazine Online Archive
    Hello world!
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    Chart Music #1: July 14th 1977 – Like Punk Hadn’t Really Happened Just Yet
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  • John Ingham - My Back Pages
    The Divining Rod And The Lost Vowel. On Tour With The Patti Smith Group
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    The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth Pt.70 – December 1971
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  • Nothing Else On
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  • New Sounds New Styles
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  • International Times aka IT
  • Oz magazine archive
  • Crawdaddy
  • Mole Express
  • Select
  • Rock's Backpages
  • Creem archive
  • The Richard Meltzer Fanclub
  • Kyle Gann's Village Voice writings
  • Audion
  • Rockmine: The Written Word Archive
  • Rock Scene archive
  • Circulation Zero - Slash, No Mag, other punkzines archived
  • Rock Writ
  • The Richard Meltzer Fanclub
  • Gandalf's Garden at Internet Archive
  • Scott Miller's music writing aka Music: What Happened?
  • MayDay Rooms underground press + radical manifestos + pamphlets
  • NME1980s on twitter
  • Muzik at Dance Music Archive
  • Mag-A-Zone
  • Still Unusual 1980s zines trove
  • The Rocket (Seattle alternative weekly)
  • The Catalogue (UK independent labels trade magazine)
  • Wax Poetics
  • Kyle Gann's Village Voice writings
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  • Dave McCullough Untidy Evergrowing Archive
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  • UK Rock Festivals Red Ice archive
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  • Discography of American Historical Recordings
  • Rolling Stone early issues at Internet Archive
  • Spin at Internet Archive
  • Psychedelic Underground Magazine Archive
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    3 years ago
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