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• Never mind the Sex Pistols. Three magistrates in Nottingham have ruled that the record sleeve of the Sex Pistols’ charttopping album, with the word “Bollocks” in the title, is not indecent. Advertisements for the punk rock band’s record “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols,” have been banned by radio and television companies in Britain, although it is now No. 1 in the charts and has sold more than 200,000 copies. A record-shop manager, Christopher Seale, in a test case before the magistrates, was acquitted on four charges under the 88-year-old Indecent Advertisements Act. ® Welcome to my nightmare. Alice Cooper, who often bragged about his consumption of large amounts of beer, has admitted himself into a hospital in the eastern United States to undergo a programme for alcoholism. The 33-year-old Cooper, a preacher’s son, previously tried to overcome his problem with private therapy with a psychiatrist, Dr Eugene Landy, but failed, according to a brief, twoparagraph statement issued by Cooper’s publicist. Landy is famous for his aggression treatment with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. O The police have called for the prosecution of the American singer, Gloria Jones, who was driving the car in which the rock star, Marc Bolan, was killed, a London inquest has been told. “It has been recommended that Miss Jones be prosecuted
for driving while unfit through drink and possibly for driving with an excess of alcohol in her blood,” Inspector William Wilson told the coroner. The inquest jury, which was also told that the car had a wobbly front wheel before it crashed, returned a verdict of accidental death on the 29-year-old Bolan. • Plain speaking. After Stanley Clark and Chick Corea met President Jimmy Carter, Corea was asked whether he was awed by his visit to the White House. Corea replied, “No,” saying the last person he was awed by was Miles Davis. • Closet queens. Olivia Records, an all-women record company, has released an album called “Lesbian Concentrate: A Lesbianthology of Songs and Poems.” Included among the titles are “For Straight Folks Who Don’t Mind Gays But Wish They Weren’t So Blatant” and “Ode To A Gym Teacher,” which includes the line “She’ll always be a player on the ballfield of my heart.” Whatever happened to blackboards. • You will be glad to know that Derek and Clive are alive and well and recording a second album for Virgin Records called “Come Again.” The debut album caused a controversial storm when released, but apparently “Come Again” surpasses it with no social value at all. The two principle themes are cancer and something “wot makes you go blind if you do it too often by yourself.” Of course, Derek and Clive are none other than Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
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Press, 1 December 1977, Page 15
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