‘We really need our male allies to come to the fore and help us out’ – The Irish Times
When Adele Bertei alighted from the Cleveland bus at Port Authority in July 1977, New York City was in a bad way. Bankruptcy, blackouts, arson, muggers, and pervs hanging around peepshows and midnight movie theatres. But this urban wasteland also spawned beautiful cultural mutations, proto-punks like Suicide, Patti Smith, Television, Blondie, the Ramones, Richard Hell … Read more