An Extended Oratorio of Basic Rockers

My own hometown newspaper, in 1980. It’s funny how much hasn’t changed: This basic idea–a syndicated UPI feature–is pretty similar to what AOL and Yahoo, etc. do with pop music right now. Even more seemingly prescient of our current kerfluffle is the Tom Petty blurb, which details his label/legal squabbles before capping with the gawky sentence that makes up my post title, describing Damn the Torpedoes. Not similar to our current situation: riding for the Clash four years late. Also not similar to our current situation: newspapers. Might have to mess around in IU’s newspaper archives to see if I can’t find more of these. Full size. (via Speak in Tongues)