All of us drop-outs and fuck-ups got together and started a movement

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The rockabilly thing was huge from about ’72; The White Hart and the Lyceum on a Sunday night, it was wall to wall teddy boys. You had young kids coming in asking for ‘graffiti rock’. They all had their copies of the American Graffiti album and they wanted more of it ...

The songs they did before they went political were much better than the ones they did afterwards: ‘How Can I Understand the Flies’, that was my favourite song, and ‘I’ve Got a Crush on You’. They were like a proper sixties punk band. An American Nuggets-type group. But when they started that political crap, I went right off them. There wasn’t any need for it, really ...

People think that the early days of punk were all banging along at Sex Pistols gigs, but the early days for me were camping it up down Park Lane with a gang of trannies, and looning about. When me and Tracie hung out, we were going off down Park Lane, getting hold of some Arab and not doing anything apart from ripping him off of a whole heap of money.