"'I'm not interested in being able to play. A musician is like another brand of entertainer.
"'There are plenty of musicians that I enjoy watching that are entertainers. But I wouldn't want to be that, because the thing with an entertainer is that there is always that dishonesty, which is what punk tried to get rid of.
"'It was like, you're not pretending to be something you are not. You are just what you are. Punk is an art of action. It's about deciding to do something and then going out and doing it.'"
Kevin Rawlinson at The Guardian reports the death of Pete Shelley.
And Jason Heller at NPR writes an appreciation.
As does Simon Reynolds at Pitchfork.
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