Edwyn Collins's Orange Juice make their entrance

February 1980: Number 21 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicOrange Juice's influence over indie music is so vast that it's hard to imagine how shocking they once seemed, not least to the audiences who reacted to singer Edwyn Collins's camp, sardonic delivery with chants of "Poofs! Poofs!". Visibly influenced by the Byrds and Creedence Clearwater Revival at a time when punk still forbade that kind of thing, and in thrall to Chic when most rock bands thought disco suck...

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