Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

My recollection of that time is that most people didn't look like Sid or Paul Simonon or, worse still, some Kings Road caricature with a mohican. The male members of the Adverts or the blokes out of say TRB or The Vibrators were much more typical of what real people looked like and even that was the glamorous end! I think that Janet Street Porter footage of the Pistols and the audience misrepresents what it was really like on an average night at the Nashville or the Marquee or whatever. From what I remember there were more long hairs with beards at punk gigs than people with our version of the Richard Hell look.