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November 26, 2010
Peter Christopherson RIP
Throbbing Gristle was foundational; this was a creator of industrial music as a genre. Coil was my favourite "band" full stop. Without them my record collection would not be my record collection, my music would not be my music. I have their logo tattooed on the back on my neck.
Sleazy's visual art career included work as a member of the influential British design agency Hipgnosis, creating iconic record sleeve artwork in the 1970s for Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and, later, Factory Records. He took the first promo photographs of the Sex Pistols, created a highly controversial window display for Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothing shop, SEX, and went on to design the logo of the hugely popular fashion company, BOY. In 1976 Sleazy met Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter and Genesis P-Orridge and together they formed electronic music provocateurs Throbbing Gristle and Industrial Records, creating one of the first independent record labels of the era and laying the foundation for a new genre of music. The band was infamously described in the Daily Mail by Tory MP Nicholas Fairbairn as "the wreckers of civilisation".
Lots of links at Boing Boing including this BBC 6 Music tribute. Condolences are appearing at Unkle Sleazy.
Before: Coil on "Hello Culture". The Beeb outdoes itself with this one.
Some favourites: Ostia (The Death of Pasolini).
From the unreleased soundtrack to Hellraiser.
So much of it just exquisite.
And a Leonard Cohen cover.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 26, 2010 01:44 PM