[peel] More thoughts

[rockerq@...]

<< Parsons is clearly betraying that he is one of those sheep. >>

Sad and ironic, because he and Burchill really were at the forefront of punk 
in 1976 - 1977 - along with other NME writers like Paul Morley they widened 
"punk rock" from a few dodgy ex pub rockers with short haircuts, to create a 
full blown movement that included film-makers, fanzine writers / journalists, 
fashion designers, poets, not to mention a thousand Peel-championed bands (and he 
certainly did play the Clash) of all styles from Generation X to Steel Pulse 
to John Cooper-Clarke to Pere Ubu.

Looking at the NME today, It's difficult to explain how important it was in 
those days in terms of the spread of ideas and politics - its circulation was 
ten times what it is today, and it actually wrote about stuff that mattered, 
rather than just acting as a shopfront for the major labels.

Funny how they've both turned out to be such tossers!

Rocker