If memory serves, it was John Peel who broke the news that Ian Curtis had died by suicide at his home in Macclesfield aged just 23. Having come on to the Hot Press radar with the previous year’s ‘Transmission’, we were confident that Joy Division would make rock ‘n’ roll headlines in 1980, which they did for all the wrong reasons on May 18.
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Not wanting to be straitjacketed by the new rock ‘n’ roll orthodoxy – the “Now don’t look to us/ Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust” couplet can be seen now as the Westway Warriors jumping punk ship – The Clash had turned to frankly bonkers Procol Harum and Mott The Hoople producer Guy Stevens for sonic inspiration and received it in spades with the single’s namesake double-album London Calling straying into reggae, ska, R&B and rockabilly territory.įrom Topper’s urgent pounding drums intro to Mick’s squall of ‘SOS’ morse code guitar at the end, this was the sound of a band reinvigorated and ready for whatever the new decade was going to throw at them. We were about to tell Chic that they’d won the Hot Press ’78 Single of the Year Award with ‘Good Times’ – the Studio 54 floor-filler went on to be sampled by everyone from Grandmaster Flash and Queen to Michael Jackson and Shakira – when on December 7, The Clash delivered this astonishing 3mins 18secs of lupine howl rock, whose “a nuclear error” line referenced the Three Mile Island meltdown, which had happened earlier in the year. Despite Patti jettisoning all his lyrics, Bruce loved what she did with it, and has subsequently performed ‘Because The Night’ live over five hundred times including when Bono joined him on stage at the E Street Band’s 2016 stop-off in Croke Park. 5 in the UK with the Easter album it trailed also going top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic. Released as a single on March 2, 1978, it quickly shot to No. Her completed version of ‘Because…’ was performed live for the first time on Decemin CBGBs, which just happened to be her 31st birthday. Immediately picking up on the song’s sexual, spiritual and redemptive vibes, Patti had no such problem.
Mainstream success had eluded Smith though until, at producer Jimmy Iovine’s behest, Bruce Springsteen gifted her the skeletal version of ‘Because The Night’ that he’d hoped to include on Darkness On The Edge Of Town, but couldn’t for the life of him finish off. If Iggy Pop was the Godfather of US punk, its Godmother was undoubtedly Patti Smith who’d been making a cult of herself since 1974 when together with Lenny Kaye she unleashed the brilliant ‘Hey Joe’/‘Piss Factory’ double A-side. Whatever you think of the latter-day Lydon’s politics, ‘God Save The Queen’ is rock ‘n’ roll at its most gloriously seditious.Īt the same time as the Pistols and their mates/enemies were running amok on this side of the Atlantic, the likes of Devo, Talking Heads, Blondie, Television, Mink Deville, Richard Hell & The Voidoids and the rest of the CBGBs/Max’s Kansas City crew were giving American rock the kick up the tush it desperately needed. Hot Press was quick to pick up on the fact that Mr and Mrs Rotten’s boy Johnny was of London-Irish stock, something which became even more apparent when, in 1979, he jumped punk ship (“Ever felt like you’ve been cheated?”) and formed PiL whose ‘Religion’ was as damning of the Catholic Church as this was of the House of Windsor and its adherents.
2 in the UK and but for some, er, creative accounting would undoubtedly have topped the Jubilee-week chart instead of Rod bleedin’ Stewart’s ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’.
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While Ireland (or most of it anyway) had been sensible enough to jettison the trappings of British monarchy in the 1920s, the Pistols’ anti-Elizabeth II tirade struck just as resonant a chord here as it did in Perfidious Albion. A blistering slice of rock ’n’ roll invective, it was released on May 27 to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Her Maj’s coronation, and immediately banned by the BBC and Britain’s equally queasy independent broadcasters.ĭespite – or perhaps because of – the radio and TV blackout, it shot to No.
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