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‘The New York Dolls coming to England and getting on the telly changed a lot of my generation’

December 29, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

Will Hermes writes:

As I wrote in LGTBOF, the influence of the NY Dolls (STILL not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, shamefully) was major. As Mark Stewart said: “We thought punk was about experimenting and having ideals and being political. The New York Dolls coming to England and getting on the telly changed a lot of my generation. If we’d never seen that, we’d be like clerks.”

The famous “mock rock” diss from Bob Harris:

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