Pink Floyd, the best enemy of punk

This is called “customizing” a t-shirt: adapting it to its taste-or rather to its disgust-personal. And the one that the young John Lydon admits in the streets of London in the summer of 1975, did not go unnoticed. This is that the boil of this 19 -year -old histrion, with a green or orange mop (according to his desires) and in view of a den, swear with the four wise faces exposed on his garment, hairy and half bearded: those of David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, the four musicians of Pink Floyd.

As the Dadaist heir, Lydon gave himself up to a diversion. He pierced holes with his victims and preceded the name of their group with a personal opinion registered manually. We now read it: « I Hate Pink Floyd » (“I hate Pink Floyd”).

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