Return of the ‘R’
Posted by s woods on February 27, 2013
In 1981 Soho Weekly News columnist Kaplan covered the London debut of Hoboken’s jumpy, innocuous Bongos, who were slammed in NME, he reported, for calling themselves ‘rock ‘n’ roll’: ‘The term is currently out of vogue in English new wave circles because it conjures up overbearing macho attitudes.’ This was the first wave of the U.K.’s ridiculous anti-’rockism’ campaign…
- Robert Christgau, “They Don’t Want to Talk About It”
