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Tributes flow as death of Dame Vivienne Westwood makes ‘world less interesting’

Dame Vivienne died on Thursday peacefully and surrounded by her family in Clapham, south London.

The Independent UK

The key moments of Vivienne Westwood's career that changed the landscape of fashion

Vivinne Westwood's clothes epitomised non-conformity and pushed her anti-establishment agenda. Here's a look at some her work which changed the fashion landscape.

ABC News

Vivienne Westwood, ‘queen of punk’ fashion, dies at 81

‘She was always trying to reinvent fashion,’ said Andrew Bolton, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Vivienne Westwood dies aged 81 as tributes pour in for fashion designer – live

Vivienne Westwood ‘died peacefully surrounded by her family,’ her representatives said

The Independent UK

Vivienne Westwood, Britain's provocative dame of fashion, dead at 81

As the person who dressed the Sex Pistols, Vivienne Westwood, who died on Thursday at the age of 81, was synonymous with 1970s punk rock, a rebelliousness that remained the hallmark of an unapologetically political designer who became one of British fashion's biggest names.

Reuters

Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer and businesswoman, dies aged 81

English fashion designer Vivienne Westwood dies "peacefully and surrounded by her family", aged 81.

ABC News

Nottingham's coolest and quirkiest bars for a top night out

It's time to up your game and explore some of the city's bars with unique cocktails, craft beers and bewitching surroundings

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Keith Levene: Guitarist whose style defined Public Image Ltd

The musician’s talent for guitar helped influence both the post-punk and new wave scenes

The Independent UK

A townhouse at the former music studios where Sir Elton John recorded Candle in the Wind is for sale for £1.9m

Now one of 12 mews houses, the Shepherd’s Bush home is for sale for just less than £1.9 million

Evening Standard

Keith Levene obituary

Guitarist and musician who was a founding member of the Clash and Public Image Ltd

The Guardian - UK

Keith Levene, founding member of the Clash, dies at 65

Influential post-punk musician was an original member of the Clash before founding PiL with John Lydon and Jah Wobble

The Guardian - UK

Handwritten John Lydon Sex Pistols lyrics sell at auction for over £50,000

The lyrics were part of a private collection of artwork, posters and documents which sold at Sotheby’s auction house for a total of £354,567.

The Independent UK

Brit punk artist launches first major art exhibition dedicated to late Queen

The prestigious Saatchi Gallery hosts the annual StART event later this month

Wales Online

Sid Vicious bleeding from a knife wound, on a bus with Paul Dacre – Bob Gruen’s best photograph

‘Sid’s reading Mad magazine beside his cowboy hippy bodyguard. He was drinking so much he didn’t even think about the three-inch cut in his arm’

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The Independent UK

‘Extraordinary’ collection of Sex Pistols artwork and memorabilia to go on sale

Sotheby’s in London will host a sale of the items during October.

The Guardian - UK

Anarchy in the auction house: the Sex Pistols ephemera that’s pogoing, going, gone

Fancy a Never Mind the Bollocks poster stained with blood from Sid Vicious’s syringe? Two canny collectors are unloading artefacts that reveal the Pistols to be an art project as much as a punk band

Tribune News Service

In London, punks will be punks – even in a national ‘period of mourning’

LONDON — In London, punk’s not dead.

Chronicle Live

John Lydon says it's tasteless for Sex Pistols to benefit from the Queen’s death

The band was famous for its anti-establishment lyrics, but the former lead singer said the family “deserves some respect in this difficult time”

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John Lydon hits out at former Sex Pistols bandmates for 'cashing in' on Queen's death

John Lydon has angrily accused his former bandmates of trying to 'cash in' on the death of Queen Elizabeth II with the use of their 1977 single 'God Save The Queen'

The Independent UK

Sex Pistols respond to John Lydon claims over ‘tasteless Queen cash-ins’

The punk band said nothing new relating to God Save The Queen is ‘being promoted or released in any way’.

The Independent UK

John Lydon: It’s disrespectful for Sex Pistols to benefit from the Queen’s death

The singer wrote the lyrics to the punk band’s 1977 hit God Save The Queen.

The Independent UK

John Lydon says it’s ‘tasteless’ if Sex Pistols benefit from the death of Queen Elizabeth II

Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, wrote the lyrics for 1977 punk hit ‘God Save the Queen’

WEKU

British pop music has a fraught relationship with Queen Elizabeth

Since the 1970s, the UK's punk, alternative and hip-hop artists have used music to share their feelings about the late monarch and what she represents.

The Guardian - UK

Idealised, gilded or defaced, Queen Elizabeth's image dominated our age

From Beaton to Warhol, from the Sex Pistols to the coins in our pockets, the Queen’s face has been everywhere

The Independent UK

Sex Pistols’ John Lydon quotes original ‘God Save the Queen’ in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II

Punk band’s 1977 single of the same name included controversial opinions about the monarchy

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