Jon Savage
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Bought OTD in 1969: still my favourite Neil Young album (amid stiff competition). It’s lush LA pop, it’s psychedelic (those layered guitars and heart beats), it’s got Jack Nitzsche arrangements- and to cap it all, The Loner. Wrongly written off, it’s just fantastic in this original version
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Bought OTD in 1969: still my favourite Neil Young album (amid stiff competition). It’s lush LA pop, it’s psychedelic (those layered guitars and heart beats), it’s got Jack Nitzsche arrangements- and to cap it all, The Loner. Wrongly written off, it’s just fantastic in this original version
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5th, November 1977 The sex Pistols album 'Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols' reviewed by Jon Savage. "As rock 'n' roll, can't be faulted."
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November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
5th, November 1977 The sex Pistols album 'Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols' reviewed by Jon Savage. "As rock 'n' roll, can't be faulted."
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An article on Magazine by Jon Savage in Sounds 5th, November 1977. Pics by Kevin Cummins.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
An article on Magazine by Jon Savage in Sounds 5th, November 1977. Pics by Kevin Cummins.
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Singles reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 5th, November 1977 including Buzzcocks 'Orgasm Addict', Devo, Pere Ubu, John Otway and many more.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Singles reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 5th, November 1977 including Buzzcocks 'Orgasm Addict', Devo, Pere Ubu, John Otway and many more.
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RIP Peter Watkins: his film The War Game is the most frightening I’ve ever seen: it changed my life when I saw it at 15. Nothing was the same afterwards. I wrote about it at length in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
RIP Peter Watkins: his film The War Game is the most frightening I’ve ever seen: it changed my life when I saw it at 15. Nothing was the same afterwards. I wrote about it at length in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded
After reading the Daniel Rachel timely book about Rock’s fascination with Nazi symbolism - I went back to my first fanzine London’s Outrage and this is what I wrote in December 1976 after seeing punks wearing swastika and getting freaked out
October 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
After reading the Daniel Rachel timely book about Rock’s fascination with Nazi symbolism - I went back to my first fanzine London’s Outrage and this is what I wrote in December 1976 after seeing punks wearing swastika and getting freaked out
Very pleased to receive this new book by Daniel Rachel - a catalogue of Rock’s flirtation with fascist symbolism that builds into a relentless polemic. Important and timely
October 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Very pleased to receive this new book by Daniel Rachel - a catalogue of Rock’s flirtation with fascist symbolism that builds into a relentless polemic. Important and timely
At the John Swarbrooke Fine Art Denton Welch show. Huge fan of his writing as a late teenager and bought a drawing at the 1985 Castelnau show. In front of the great 1935 portrait by Gerald Leet
October 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
At the John Swarbrooke Fine Art Denton Welch show. Huge fan of his writing as a late teenager and bought a drawing at the 1985 Castelnau show. In front of the great 1935 portrait by Gerald Leet
Really enjoying this memoir from a different time and place: women in a boys’ world, Manhattan when it was full of space, creativity and danger. Highly recommend. Published next year
October 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Really enjoying this memoir from a different time and place: women in a boys’ world, Manhattan when it was full of space, creativity and danger. Highly recommend. Published next year
Very excited to get this great Les Petites Bon-Bons package from Boo-Hooray to celebrate (Bobby Bon Bon) Robert Lambert’s recent appearance at Printed Matter Art Book Fair in NY #anewbohemia
October 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Very excited to get this great Les Petites Bon-Bons package from Boo-Hooray to celebrate (Bobby Bon Bon) Robert Lambert’s recent appearance at Printed Matter Art Book Fair in NY #anewbohemia
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Buzzcocks, Magazine, John Cooper Clarke, The Worst, The Fall, The Prefects, The Negatives and Warsaw's gig at the Electric Circus, Manchester reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 15th, October 1977.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Buzzcocks, Magazine, John Cooper Clarke, The Worst, The Fall, The Prefects, The Negatives and Warsaw's gig at the Electric Circus, Manchester reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 15th, October 1977.
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Bought OTD in 1971: ok one day we had a contest at school: who had the heaviest record? My peers brought in Purple and Sabbath and smirked until I put on Sister Ray - cleared the room. Love this record - the insane bass on White Light, the guitar explosions on Call My Name and still Sister Ray
October 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Bought OTD in 1971: ok one day we had a contest at school: who had the heaviest record? My peers brought in Purple and Sabbath and smirked until I put on Sister Ray - cleared the room. Love this record - the insane bass on White Light, the guitar explosions on Call My Name and still Sister Ray
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Penetration's album 'Moving Targets' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 14th, October 1978.
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October 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Penetration's album 'Moving Targets' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 14th, October 1978.
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Bought OTD in 1972: another proper 1967 psych album. Doesn’t have a first class rep but so what - it’s charming, tuneful, inventive and light. Look At Me I’m You is mundanity transformed by musique concrete, Frozen Dog rocks, People of the Royal Parks a protest against a more regimented time. Dig it
October 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Bought OTD in 1972: another proper 1967 psych album. Doesn’t have a first class rep but so what - it’s charming, tuneful, inventive and light. Look At Me I’m You is mundanity transformed by musique concrete, Frozen Dog rocks, People of the Royal Parks a protest against a more regimented time. Dig it
Bought OTD in 1972: and the future. The hits are on the first side but the second is more experimental and far stranger. Postmodern pop with emotion and sound combinations never heard before - oboe with guitar and synth - culminating in the space age torch song Sea Breezes
October 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Bought OTD in 1972: and the future. The hits are on the first side but the second is more experimental and far stranger. Postmodern pop with emotion and sound combinations never heard before - oboe with guitar and synth - culminating in the space age torch song Sea Breezes
Bought OTD in 1972: one of two, the past and the future. This is a proper 1967 psych album - not too many of those - with jammy excursions, sitar drenched Dave Mason songs and Steve Winwood’s beautiful No Face No Name No Number. One last rave up on the title track too
October 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Bought OTD in 1972: one of two, the past and the future. This is a proper 1967 psych album - not too many of those - with jammy excursions, sitar drenched Dave Mason songs and Steve Winwood’s beautiful No Face No Name No Number. One last rave up on the title track too
Bought OTD in 1970: this was a huge one for me at the time - twisted psych blues with a unique vision. So many great songs: Electricity. Plastic Factory, Yellow Brick Road, Sure ‘Nuff, Zig Zag Wanderer, Dropout Boogie. The one that crept up on me: the version of Robert Williams’ Grown So Ugly
October 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Bought OTD in 1970: this was a huge one for me at the time - twisted psych blues with a unique vision. So many great songs: Electricity. Plastic Factory, Yellow Brick Road, Sure ‘Nuff, Zig Zag Wanderer, Dropout Boogie. The one that crept up on me: the version of Robert Williams’ Grown So Ugly
I’m obsessed with this record at the moment - a perfect mix of melody, deep feeling and the complexities of love. Arthur as June Alexander’s first record, from around 1960. Dylan covered it but the original is just wonderful (repro 45) m.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ky...
October 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I’m obsessed with this record at the moment - a perfect mix of melody, deep feeling and the complexities of love. Arthur as June Alexander’s first record, from around 1960. Dylan covered it but the original is just wonderful (repro 45) m.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ky...
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Sounds Singles Page reviewed by Jon Savage, 7th, October 1978. Including Public Image, Cabaret Voltaire, Penetration, Stiff Little Fingers and The Yachts.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Sounds Singles Page reviewed by Jon Savage, 7th, October 1978. Including Public Image, Cabaret Voltaire, Penetration, Stiff Little Fingers and The Yachts.
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Very pleased to have images from my early 77 fanzine London’s Outrage 2 (photos taken from the Uninhabited London series) in the Rock’n Roll Public Library zine #2
October 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Very pleased to have images from my early 77 fanzine London’s Outrage 2 (photos taken from the Uninhabited London series) in the Rock’n Roll Public Library zine #2
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1st, October 1977 an article on The Heartbreakers by Jon Savage and pics by Andre Csillag and Ray Stevenson. "....you can be an asshole and still be a rock'n'roll star. (Laughter)."
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October 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
1st, October 1977 an article on The Heartbreakers by Jon Savage and pics by Andre Csillag and Ray Stevenson. "....you can be an asshole and still be a rock'n'roll star. (Laughter)."
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The Heartbreakers' album 'L.A.M.F.' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 1st, October 1977 .
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October 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The Heartbreakers' album 'L.A.M.F.' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 1st, October 1977 .
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46 years ago today, @jonsavage.bsky.social reviewed Wire's "154" for the Melody Maker (29 September 1979).
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September 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
46 years ago today, @jonsavage.bsky.social reviewed Wire's "154" for the Melody Maker (29 September 1979).
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46 years ago today, @jonsavage.bsky.social reviewed Wire's "154" for the Melody Maker (29 September 1979).
September 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
46 years ago today, @jonsavage.bsky.social reviewed Wire's "154" for the Melody Maker (29 September 1979).