
The caption on this photo at the BBC site reads:
Miss Piggy dons a designer dress for a window display by London store Selfridges to celebrate 30 years of punk.I don't know what either Miss Piggy or Selfridges has to do with punk. But punk turning thirty has got me a bit, music of my mid-teens. If the new rural overlords have anything in their dossiers on my parents it would likely be something to the effect of "permitted exposure of 14 year old to punk". I don't know if I will allow music like the Stranglers or the Sex Pistols when that days comes in this household but there was, of course, little choice given the UK cousins sending tapes and letting you know where to get the punk pins for one's anorak. Punk shaped my musical taste, placed unlikely stars in the arc of my sky and informed my patience in matters political and moral.
So now there are blogs like the interesting Punk Turns 30 which has a year's worth of mid-70s photography celebrating the freedom to say "That F%*#ing Sucks!!" when in the presence of that which sucks. Worth celebrating.

Comments
cm - March 4, 2006 11:29 am
Piggy is not punk.
Gordo - March 5, 2006 10:48 am
My 8-year-old likes Green Day. I didn't know whether to rejoice or panic when I found out. I still don't know.
Alan - March 5, 2006 10:49 am
So does our six year old. I am holding off on pulling the 1977 lps out until that day in junior high when they are most needed.
Gordo - March 5, 2006 12:22 pm
That sounds like a fabulous plan. I thikn what bothered me the most about the Green Day revelation was that I didn't introduce him to it. :-(
Señor Citizen - May 1, 2006 2:24 pm
Well here in the US we celebrate by throwing commemorative punk shows! I only wish we could dig up some of the originals from the UK to play here.