TURN UP THE VOLUME Listens Back – 25 From 1978
1978 was the year of Grease, Superman, The UK Winter of Discontent… STOP!
Forget all that. 1978 was a new punk wave year of alternative razzmatazz,
sonic turmoil and timeless killer tracks by Patti Smith, Buzzcocks, The Clash,
Blondie, PIL, Talking Heads and, yes, The Stones & The Boss and many more.
Also the year of teenage kicks and the year we
learned that Jesus was a rock ‘n’ roll nigger…
Here come Turn Up The Volume‘s
25 ear-picked killer tracks of 1978…
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Also the year the world
turned DayGlo…
(Image: Cover of the book of The Creative Life of Poly Styrene)