CH 1. Rebel Queens: Women, Punk, and the Sound of Resistance, Chapter One: “New York.” by Sarnia de la Mare
Welcome to the new series of Books by Tale Teller Club, Concise Books that give you what you need to know on 100s of subjects. CH 1. Rebel Queens: Women, Punk, and the Sound of Resistance, Chapter One: “New York.” by Sarnia de la Mare Chapter One: New York Where the Noise Began—and Where it Ended Up The room was hot, rank with beer and body odour, lights flickering through cigarette smoke. CBGB wasn’t a temple so much as a sewer mouth, coughing up sound. Patti Smith stood on the lip of the stage, lean and electric, her hair a dark storm around a face that refused to smile. She wasn’t pretty, and that was the point. Her voice cracked, sneered, soared. Every syllable spat into the microphone was an act of defiance: against the industry, against gender, against the idea that art should behave itself. This was 1975, and something unnameable was happening in New York’s Bowery district. The Velvet Underground had already cracked the veneer of polite rock; Television, Talking Heads, and Blond...