if punk has a home territory, it is here on king s road in the middle of london, the same street that launched the mini skirt and the look and mood of the swinging 60s. punk rockers. what s this done for us? nothing. ain t got me a job. there is no future for a kid now. i mean, there isn t. there is an indigenous anger and frustration that drove a lot of punk on and got a lot of young people behind it. london calling through the far away towns war is declared and battle come down you have been said to be a political group. yeah, i ve said it. it s true. if there were jobs, maybe we d be singing about love and kissing or something. the clash, musically, is the best of the lot. it doesn t sound like traditional punk. but it doesn t sound like anybody else but the clash either. but i have no fear because london is drowning i live by the river
they are the led zeppelin, a rock group on tour, and in the vernacular of the record business, where big is nearly nothing, zeppelin is very big. to get around, zeppelin uses a chartered 707, the kind of plane president nixon uses. the president s plane doesn t have an organ nor 15-foot mirrored bar, nor in the private quarters does it have two bedrooms and a fireplace. i m a bit upset it doesn t have a pool table onboard. apart from that, i think this is the best way to travel. americans are now spending $2 billion a year on music. that s $700 million more than the whole movie industry grosses from ticket sales in one year. about three times the amount of money taken in by all spectator sports. i m telling you rock n roll basically is no different than ibm, xerox, sarah lee, chevrolet, supply and demand, it s the same business. rock n roll had been a
pampered. they are the led zeppelin, a rock group on tour, and in the vernacular of the record business, where big is nearly nothing, zeppelin is very big. to get around, zeppelin uses a chartered 707, the kind of plane president nixon uses. the president s plane doesn t have an organ nor 15-foot mirrored bar, nor in the private quarters does it have two bedrooms and a fireplace. i m a bit upset it doesn t have a pool table onboard. apart from that, i think this is the best way to travel. americans are now spending $2 billion a year on music. that s $700 million more than the whole movie industry grosses from ticket sales in one year. about three-times the amount of money taken in by all spectator sports. i m telling you rock n roll basically is no different than ibm, xerox, sarah lee, chevrolet, supply and demand, it s the same business. rock n roll had been a gritty novelty business. it was not the center of the world in the 50s and 60s.
middle of london, the same street that launched the mini skirt and the look and mood of the swinging 60s. what s this done for us? nothing. ain t got me a job. there isn t any future for a kid now. i mean there isn t. there is an indigenous anger and frustration that drove a lot of punk on and got a lot of young people behind it. london calling through the far away towns war is declared and battle come down you have been said to be a political group. yeah, i ve said it. it s true. if there were jobs, maybe we d be singing about love and kissing or something. the clash, musically, is the best of the lot. doesn t sound like traditional punk, but it doesn t sound like anybody else but the clash either. but i have no fear because london is drowning i live by the river
if you went to any of the big arena rock shows, it was always about the star up here and the audience down here and this sort of iconography of the rock star as this huge figure. crazy, crazy on you it was bound to happen but it comes as a shock nevertheless. in a poll taken by a leading pop music magazine in england, the beatles came in second. the most popular rock group in england these days is called the led zeppelin. in their 20s, they re rich, powerful, temperamental, and pampered. they are the led zeppelin, a rock group on tour, and in the vernacular of the record business, where big is nearly nothing, zeppelin is very big. to get around, zeppelin uses a chartered 707, the kind of plane president nixon uses. the president s plane doesn t