What I found interesting is even when the Beeb went digging with old punks they all still felt pretty much the same way about the Queen - age hasn't changed them, unlike some of the stars - although again most of the them didn't cosy up to her either.
I think it had to change, and the current openness of the Monarchy and Diana and her kids etc. was a direct result of the low point of the 70s - which being a kid I only dimly remember power cuts etc. But I can see a lot of similarities - the cuts, useless government, youth unemployment, the rolling back of the optimism of a previous time.
It's still shit having a Monarchy and I'd rather they wasn't there....don't mind having a figurehead if we must, but the rest? Nope. Prefer it to be elected. My vote would be for John Cooper Clarke ;-)
Funny hearing John about the 1978 Rock Against Racism Carnival, he links it directly with the Stuff the Jubilee campaign and God Save the Queen, that it continued that process - sounds like quite a few people got politicised at that time for various reasons.
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Date: 2012-05-31 01:44 pm (UTC)I think it had to change, and the current openness of the Monarchy and Diana and her kids etc. was a direct result of the low point of the 70s - which being a kid I only dimly remember power cuts etc. But I can see a lot of similarities - the cuts, useless government, youth unemployment, the rolling back of the optimism of a previous time.
It's still shit having a Monarchy and I'd rather they wasn't there....don't mind having a figurehead if we must, but the rest? Nope. Prefer it to be elected. My vote would be for John Cooper Clarke ;-)
Funny hearing John about the 1978 Rock Against Racism Carnival, he links it directly with the Stuff the Jubilee campaign and God Save the Queen, that it continued that process - sounds like quite a few people got politicised at that time for various reasons.