Six degrees of separation … Rotherhithe Tunnel to Vivienne Westwood
Nice one … thanks to Jim Canty for this little taxer. Come out of the Rotherhithe Tunnel and you emerge in Stepney. Stepney is where John Wardle was raised. The same John Wardle who, under the moniker Jah Wobble (named thanks to a drunken mispronunciation by Sid Vicious) played bass in the John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols band Public Image Ltd. Lydon and Vicious, while in the Pistols were dressed by Vivienne Westwood, then the partner of their manager Malcolm McLaren. The pair famously ran the Kings Road boutique Sex/Seditionaries, where the proto-Pistols hung out in the mid-seventies.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Or, the Rotherhithe tunnel is not that long a walk away from Goldsmiths College, where Dame W studied. Two stops on the East London Line, as-was, when the stations are functioning, too.