Here's a story that will horrify collectors and museum curators, but might delight some Punk Rock fans. The son and widow of the Sex Pistols late manager hauled a load of punk memorabilia to the River Thames in London Saturday (11/26) and ignited the lot of it. The act was in protest of Punk London, a series of cultural presentations fashion designer Vivienne
Westwood, wife of manager Malcolm McLaren and her son, Joe Corre, objected to as a crass establishment attempt to cash-in on the punk culture her late husband and the Sex Pistols represented. Corre was quoted by the BBC as proclaiming to a crowd that gathered near the inferno, 'Punk was never meant to be nostalgic - and you can't learn to be one at a Museum of London workshop.' He characterized the Punk London program as 'privatised, packaged and castrated'.
Classic Rock Magazine