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This is a question I asked on Facebook some while ago, but never got an answer to. It's only half-facetious.

The Beatles were sometimes reviled by the punks in the 70s, but in 'Polythene Pam' they predicted with eerie accuracy the punk fashions of seven years later: bin liners, kilts, military boots. Coincidence? Did Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren just take their ideas from Beatles lyrics? Was there already some proto-punk scene in 1969 to which the Fab Four were referring? Or is something more supernatural going on? In short, is Abbey Road the Sortes Vergilianae of our time?


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Date: 2022-09-13 01:41 pm (UTC)
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In that way that one collapses all subculture from the decades right before one was born into a formless mass, it always felt like a vaguely mods/rockers thing to me, but looking it up I am clearly wrong.

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Date: 2022-09-13 07:13 pm (UTC)
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Still not living in Yellow Submarines ;-)

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Date: 2022-09-13 08:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
I think Lennon said he knew a woman who dressed that way??

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