A whole country being held hostage – basically that’s what it was. In the minds of the people at least and that’s what it’s all about when paranoia breaks out, the irrational fear, the hysteria about the stranger, about the different, in other words: about Johnny Rotten and his band . Safety pin-riddled petty bourgeois fright, frontman of the so-called society regarded with disgust and shivering Sex Pistols, probably the most angry face of pop to date. And Jamie Reid in this logic then just the author of his ransom demands.
On the Death of Jamie Reid: Blackmail Letters to the Square Skull Culture
