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TOP RANK, READING JUNE 13, 1977

I WAS always waiting for this signal, waiting for someone to fire a flare to say it was our time now, because up until then the ’70s had been pretty drab. We needed a scene. A couple of months later we went to the two-day punk festival at the 100 Club and saw the Pistols again. I also saw The Clash for the first time there, when they still had Keith Levene, and it was Siouxsie’s first gig, with Sid Vicious on drums.

I remember walking down the 

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