Suzanne Moore wrote a good piece in the Guardian about how postmodernism put paid to the avant-garde which can perhaps only exist within modernist certainties. She writes: Reed's death has hit my generation because his presence anchored us into a time and a place when the avant garde was still meaningful. .. His death made us remember the music that made us want to leave our small towns and our small lives, a time when transgression was not simply a marketing technique.
Take a Walk on the Wild Side was all over ordinary radio in 1973, when I remember listening to it, in Nanaimo, during my year out from the AA. It didn't shock, it seemed right, I got it, as did we all.
It was reportage.
sorry, I didn't ad the ads, they just all of a sudden have started to appear. damn.
Marketing, the bane of contemporary life.