A quick question...

[dave]

It's interesting contrasting the career of the Angelic Upstarts (from 
swastika armbands to anti-fascist crusaders) and Crisis (from anti-
racist firebrands to dalliance with nazi imagery on the part of a 
couple of members in later outfits). It's unfortunate that punk (or 
more precisely the Pistols and their following) chose that particular 
provocation to get themselves noticed. I think Peel & Walters did their 
bit to promote a more useful message, and for that I'm eternally 
grateful. 

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "thebarguest" <thebarguest@...> wrote:
>
> In the early days of punk, both the Pistols and
> Siouxsie wore swastika T-shirts. The Pistols did
> a song called "Belsen was a Gas" - how they got away
> with that God knows ...... Siouxsie did get some
> criticism for it, and in a few years wore a
> star-of-david T-shirt singing a song glorifying
> Israel and saying in interviews that she was half
> Jewish. Apology accepted, hopefully. "Joy Divison"
> started as "Warsaw" (obvious Nazi connection) and
> ended as "New Order" - this given a (relatively)
> large Jewish population in Manchester. I love the
> music of W/JD/NO and not seeing any anti-semitism
> in the lyrics can only assume the names were down
> to fashion/ignorance/bad advice. But then Tony
> Wilson is a shrewd, well-educated man....