Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

Hopefully The Clash (and TRB and bands like them) encouraged a few 15 year olds to think about politics and the wider world for the very first time. It's a bit like Prog fans learning to love Stravinsky or Lou Reed fans reading Dostoevsky and Delmore Schwartz. Aside from being drugging, boozing and shagging music rock n roll can open doors on to other worlds that your teachers and parents wont tell you about. Which is its great virtue, but the idea that you would still look at the world from that doorway as an adult is as frightening as the idea that anyone would base their adult political opinions on what a rock star says about the world.