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Punk has now become so familiar that people forget its primal, revolutionary drive. For a brief period, everything had to be new. If it hadn’t been done before, do it: why not? What’s to stop you? Ari Up enacted this impulse on stage, on record, and in person into the 21st century. In any language, this was heroic, and I salute her for that: I’m sorry she’s gone.
John Savage on Ari Up, lead singer of The Slits, a punk with the courage to confront. (via teclista)
That first sentence kills me, it is so perfect.
