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Ep. 31: Punk's Creative Destruction

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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The Battle Ground in the Seventies

In the mid seventies, eric clapton goes through a phase where he alternates between being a heroine junky and just a straight uff old alcoholic. But in a drunk an concert in 19 76, he endorsed enoch powell, who had given a speech that's known in england as the rivers of blood speech. Punks flip there. I've lad e on a end, at o end of punk. Will the end of siese rock? You're geting it to rock against racis? Well, we'll get there.

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