
Seit John Niven vor vier Jahren seine Erfahrungen als A&R-Mann in der Musikbranche in einen beißenden Rocknroll Psycho namens “Kill Your Friends” verwandelt hat, war der Brite prädestiniert für eine Folge in unserer Lieblingsplatten-Rubrik. Diesen August ist das neue Buch “Gott Bewahre” erschienen, das Niven nun gemeinsam mit Nagel, Ex-Sänger von Muff Potter und selbst Autor (“Was kostet die Welt“), auf einer Lesetour ab Ende September vorstellt.
* Your three favourite Punk singles/songs?

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** COMPLETE CONTROL BY THE CLASH.
This is possibly my favourite record of all time. As Greil Markus says, when it ends you are amazed the world has not been changed in some way.
(Anm.: John Niven bezieht sich auf einen Text von Greil Marcus in der Village Voice 1988 anlässlich der Veröffentlichung des ersten The-Clash-Best-Of-Albums:
“Even less explainable, now, is that at the heart of this side (of The Clash Best Of) is a performance that as pire sound stands as the greatest rock’n'roll recording ever made. Oddly it’s about The Clash’s career, at least on a literal lyric-sheet level: their label-sanctioned protest single about the same label committing the atrocity of releasing an earlier single without the band’s permission. So what. Yet from this flimsy soapbox they fly to a dramatization of autonomy, community, personal identity, and social contestation, and with a few scattered slogans (“THIS MEANS YOU!”) make those usually abstract notions as real, as dangerous, as any moment governed by love or money, hate or war. Across more than ten years of listening to “Complete Control”, one reaction has always come first: disbelief. Disbelief that mere human beings could create such a sound, and disbelief that the world could remain the same when it’s over.”)
** HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN BY THE SEX PISTOLS.
The middle eight of this record which ends with Johnny Lydon screaming ‘I wanna go over the Berlin wall’ and then into the guitar solo is just pure adrenalin head rush.
** TOO DRUNK TO FUCK by The Dead Kennedys.
Just pure good times. I’d like this played at my funeral.

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* A record that will make you dance?
Almost anything by The Rolling Stones will make me shake my fat, middle-aged ass.
* Your favourite song lyrics?
‘You rode on a chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulders a Siamese cat. Ain’t it hard when you discover that, he wasn’t really where it’s at…’
Dylan’s Rolling Stone. All of it.
All Dylan in fact.
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