Erm.... not as I understand it.hakey wrote:Might giving the answer also invoke Godwin's Law?
Right then....
Steve Priest:
http://www.thesweetband.com/steve.htmlIn one performance of "Blockbuster" on Top of the Pops, Steve Priest incited much controversy with a tongue-in-cheek appearance on stage clad in Nazi regalia.
Vivian Stanshall:
http://www.iankitching.me.uk/music/bonzos/viv.htmlLike so many rock musicians of the Sixties, he became a heavy drinker and drug user and went on many binges with Keith Moon in the Seventies, the most infamous being when they dressed as Nazi officers and toured around the East End, causing shock and dismay.
Siouxsie Sioux:
http://www.truepunk.com/tag/siouxsie-sioux/During World War II England had been under constant attack from the Nazis, and because the English had to fight German attack on their own soil Nazism became a symbol of evil in their culture - to a much larger extent than here in the US. During the late 70s many young Brits who were not alive during World War II found it easy to shock the older generation with Nazi imagery. People their parents' age had been around to see Hitler drop bombs on their homes, and the younger generation had no sense of what it was like to live in war time. But using Nazi imagery proved to be the biggest fashion mistake of Siouxsie Sioux's life. It had gone over well when she had come out on stage, topless, with a swastika painted on her chest in a London pub (notably with Sid Vicious on drums). It wasn't about to go over as well elsewhere.
In 1976 Siouxsie Sioux went with the Sex Pistols to mainland Europe for their tour. When in France, Siouxsie underestimated the importance of Nazi symbolism in the country. France had been torn apart by the war, forced to live under the tyrannical rule of both Nazi Germans and the collaborators, the Nazi French, also known as the Vichy Republic. And unlike the punks of England, the punks of France still felt the sting of Hitler's whip, even thirty years later. When a French punk (whose identity was never discovered) caught sight of foreigner Siouxsie Sioux walking around his hometown with a black armband emblazoned with the Nazi swastika, he took it upon himself to show the girl that she had made the wrong decision. Although the Frenchman's cowardly act of beating up a girl in her mid-twenties displayed nothing but a deep personal insecurity, it should act as a warning: if you're going to play with sacred symbols, be prepared to pay a price.
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