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Magenta Devine at Fulham, 1981. Photo by Derek Ridgers.

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An interview with Jean-Jacques Brunel of The Strangers and Magenta Devine, Punk in London (1977) dir. Wolfgang Büld

TRANSCRIPT:

“I think Punk now is a joke, actually. I don’t think it bears any resemblance to what it started out as, and I don’t think it’s fulfilled very many of its original aims — in England anyway. I mean, it’s been turned into a commercial carnival so quickly that the people who started it and the people who put the original ideas have lost control of what they’re doing. Record companies and the music business in general, and the media have cashed in on it so quickly, and they’ve taken everything out of it. they’ve taken the creativity, the ideas, the imagination out of it and they’ve put nothing back except money, and that has actually killed it. I mean, I think the people who were responsible for making punk rock what it is, or making punk rock, never envisaged what has happened now.“

“They’ve lost out, basically. I mean, they started the whole thing. It was their ideas and they’ve really lost out all the benefits of it.”

“The people who put it together — like Andrew Czezowski from the Roxy Club, people like that — they’ve been forced out by bigger concerns, by big companies (record companies). They’ve ended up with no money; nothing. And Punk has been taken out as just another commodity to sell. So, in a way, it hasn’t achieved any of its ideas. The original idea was to get away from the old music — selling a product.”

“The original thing for punk was that the kids could identify with it. They could talk, they could go up and talk to the bands, the bands would go to the same places they would. You know, they could just see the bands all over the place; they weren’t stars. But, unfortunately, it’s very difficult because bands have got to get record company contracts, right? I mean, to be able to survive. it’s very difficult to see how they could have combined the two, you know? keeping it on the level with the kids and having the money.”

“There’s no way punk could have stayed as it was. Punk would have had to evolve and become a big business. It’s just unfortunate that it became a big business so quickly. And a lot of people approved that once they're successful — they’re just as rich and they’re just as into being capitalists and they’re just as into making money — and forget the people who put them there, as was the old generation of... the old farts or whatever. So the New Wave has quickly become exactly like the Old Wave.”

“...In most cases. And unfortunately the punk followers have gotten into the same thing as the old hippies (the old farts). As [Johnny] Rotten says, you know, they only accept their own kind. They’re not tolerant to other people, which is what they should be. I mean, the whole thing about anarchy was that, [Johnny] Rotten will say personal [that] Anarchy… You don’t interfere with anybody else’s business, you keep to what you want to do, and that’s how you should go. And unfortunately, it hasn’t turned out like that. He’s the only person that’s kept doing it.”

“The whole thing about Punk Rock was that it didn’t matter whether you were black; it didn’t matter whether you were white; it didn’t matter what your hair was, what you looked like, whether you were ugly, rich, poor or pretty. But already, there’s a snobbery within Punk where you gotta have short hair; you gotta have tight trousers; you gotta have plastic clothes, and whatever. And already, they’re as bad as the people with long hair who said that you couldn’t be fashionable if you had short hair, and this sort of thing. So it’s a shame that Punk has... it’s not achieved any of its original aims, in a nutshell. And that’s it: The Cynic's View of Punk Rock. What next?”

“Yeah, what next?”

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RIP Magenta Devine

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Magenta Devine, presenter of Network 7 and Rough Guide, dies aged 61

TV host and journalist, known for her stylish attire and sunglasses, was the face of ‘yoof TV’ programming in the 1980s and 90s

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Magenta Devine Bio, Wiki, Age, Married, Net Worth, Twitter, Instagram, Facts, Cause of Death

Magenta Devine Bio, Wiki, Age, Married, Net Worth, Twitter, Instagram, Facts, Cause of Death

Magenta Devine Bio

Magenta Devine was a British TV presenter and journalist best known for presenting the youth programmes Rough Guide and Reportage on BBC2 in the 1990s. She later presented Young, Gifted and Broke for ITV. Devine originally worked for Tony Brainsby, a publicist for Queen, Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake.

Magenta Devine Biography

Magenta Devine was born on 4 November 1957 (age 61 years

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Magenta Devine Bio, Wiki, Age, Death Cause, Husband, Net Worth

Magenta Devine Bio, Wiki, Age, Death Cause, Husband, Net Worth

Magenta Devine Wiki

Magenta Devine was a British TV presenter and journalist best known for presenting the youth programmes Rough Guide and Reportage on BBC2 in the 1990s. She later presented Young, Gifted and Broke for ITV. Devine originally worked for Tony Brainsby, a publicist for Queen, Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake.

Magenta Devine Bio

Magenta Devine was born on 4 November 1957 (age 61 years), in…

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