Punk Crisis

In March 1977, John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon of the punk band the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey, militarized landscape of East Berlin, which reminded him of home in London. Lydon went up to the wall and extended his middle finger. He didn''t know it at the time, but the Sex Pistols'' reputation had preceded his gesture, as young people in the "Second World" busily appropriated...