//Elisabeth Photo Library, Cleveland Street, London W1. Summer 1977//
11.30am July 1977: Strolling back from a parcel delivery in the shadow of the Post Office Tower, past The Tower Tavern.
Three Teddy Boys already in there, sitting by the ceiling to floor window. There had been several Teds picking off stragglers the previous night after the screening of Sex Pistols Number 1 at The Other Cinema in Tottenham Street.
These three were evidently having a livener after being up all night in Soho and surrounds. My brothel creepers probably did for it, with Hoofer army greens and a 60s shirt from Acme Attractions. I had black spiked hair (the vegetable dye ran blue down my neck in the rain) and afterwards one of the cops said: “Well, what do you expect walking around like that?”
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