![]() ![]() These days, thankfully, most people's minds seem more open. Even a love of the Beatles was held to be slightly questionable: better, it seemed, to stock up on records by the Wedding Present and deny that most of the 1960s and 1970s had ever happened. ![]() ![]() Back then, with the aftershocks of punk still faintly audible, the post-Barrett Floyd were widely viewed as the bilious embodiment of everything that the Sex Pistols et al had raged so righteously against Johnny Rotten, famously, had been fond of wearing a Pink Floyd T-shirt, wittily customised with the graffito: "I hate." The Floyd were not alone - as someone who cut their musical teeth during that time, I can well remember the list of forbidden pleasures: Led Zeppelin (invented heavy metal, alleged misogynists) Crosby, Stills and Nash (wimpy hippy sell-outs, took too much cocaine) the Grateful Dead (acid-fried idiots - with beards), etc, etc. If Waters' suspicions were correct, Stipe's stance was not exactly controversial. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |