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My Favourite People & Me: 1978-1988
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Six months earlier, the only other superstar survivors from the British punk wars, the Jam, had announced their breakup at the peak of their own career, their front man Paul Weller collapsing under the weight of the ‘spokesman-for-a-generation’ mantle and deciding that, at the age of just twenty-three, he needed to break loose and relieve himself
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The zimbaldoni (which sound very much like commonplace books were effective at increasing the visibility of an author and helping to spread their work.
People would copy passages, share them with others, and they would in turn copy them.
I'm reminded of:
- social media (on a good day)
- ripped CDs
- mixtapes
- PDFS
- photocopies
- file-sharing like Napster
New Order, the Smiths, the Fall, Magazine.