[Dr. Sivana]

That they sold out and went commercial.

I knew someone who managed a nightclub in NYC in that era, and I asked him if all the punkers and New Wavers believed their own Schtick. He said, "None of them, except the Talking Heads." He also predicted that Deborah Harry would be dead from substance abuse before she hit 35, so he was wrong about that.

This pretense that the punkers and hard rockers of the era were driven primarily by a higher sense of "Art" is silly. You may as well say Virgil went commercial because the Aeneid was a commissioned work.

[dfwgator]

Debbie started out as a folkie...

I do miss that Hippy Chick look.

[Celtic Conservative]

Yeah, I’m just noting perceptions from that time. Which I was around for. But when it comes to the idea of “purity of their art” most people who talk like that are posers.

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