Why pop stars won't be attacking the monarchy this jubilee

The Sex Pistols led a series of blistering musical attacks on the monarchy. Why don't today's pop stars do the same? Have they gone soft? Or do they have more important targets?Overfamiliarity can erase certain qualities from even the greatest songs and the first thing to go is usually a sense of danger. The best way to prevent God Save the Queen fading into its own myth is to think again about the kind of country in which it made landfall back in 1977.In England's Dreaming, Jon Savage remembers...

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