The Slits

The Slits, avant-punk anarchists, were about to release their prime
album
'Cut' which featured them nearly naked and covered in mud (in a
photograph
by Penny Smith). I took that image of them and put them into St
Trinians
uniforms - well, nearly - and maintained the mud motif with hand-prints
and grafitti featuring some of their lyrics. They scratchilly covered
Marvin
Gaye's "Heard it through the grapevine" with Budgie on drums.
It didn't quite match up to their superb John Peel sessions of a year
or
so earlier (now, at last available on CD). Johnny Rotten wound up
married
to the mother of the Slits' lead singer, Ariana.
Gary Numan

Gary Numan had ditched his band Tubeway Army and the 'New Man', often
with
bleached hair, invaded the pop charts on several occasions ("Are
friends
electric?", "Cars"). He has even had a rebirth as an artist
of integrity recently after a near-crash or two as a private pilot and
years
in the wilderness as a buffoon.
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