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Authors: Danny Baker

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11. Dad with Blackie – the miracle mongrel of the Silwood Estate who was brighter than 75 per cent of people I have met since.

12. My camera jammed and I got this effect. Tommy Hodges (right) and Peter King playing football in the square. Look through the woozy effect and you can see the council provided a stone boat.

13. West Greenwich Secondary School, Form 1b, 1968. Front row, four from left.

14. West Greenwich, 3rd Year, First XI. Back row, second left. Front, second right, is my later punk cohort, Mark Perry. We played in red and black shirts like Kraftwerk. Shorts and socks were assorted colours. And street shoes allowed, apparently. We were actually a very good team.

15. At One Stop Records, 1973. Now look again at the cover of this book and behold the ruins of a once-great beauty.

16. With Paul Baldock in the twilight days of the record shop. We’re discussing the best way to reverse articulated lorry up to the back door before giving over the keys.

17. Ladies and Gentlemen – the disastrous black kitchen of Camberwell. Good friend Steve (Sebast) ponders what havoc we have wreaked.

18. I have no idea who this lovely girl is or where I am. But I recall that I spent huge amounts of the seventies in just such a clinch.

19. Newquay, 1975. I’m not drunk nor stoned, but had chosen to sleep outside the tent rather than partake of the toxic atmosphere within, aka the great smell of men enjoying themselves.

20. My sister, with her brothers, on her wedding day. I’d literally just got back from an enormous chaps’ holiday in Newquay and, consequently, am possibly still a little fried.

21. Mob-handed at the Global Village disco, Charing Cross; a cavernous, competitive, volatile venue that was Saturday night. I’m in the white belt hanging on to the girl.

22. 1977. Punk rock has happened and
Sniffin’ Glue
fanzine was right at its beating heart. Mark and I affect moodiness while holding society responsible for stuff. And that. (
JFA Archive
)

23. On the roof of Dryden Chambers, 1977. I seem to have gatecrashed a photo session for Mark’s band, Alternative TV. ‘Cheer up, lads! It’s pop music!’ (
JFA Archive
)

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