This is the sleeve designed by Barney Bubbles – would have been 71 today – for Screwed Up, the 1977 EP by the rabble-rousing writer and performer Mick Farren, who died at the weekend after collapsing onstage during a performance with his band The Deviants of their poem/song Cocaine & Gunpowder.
Tomorrow, I will pay tribute to Farren, who I interviewed in Los Angeles in 2000 for my music press history In Their Own Write. The next year we shared a rambunctious launch party for that book and his memoir Give The Anarchist A Cigarette
Meantime here is the title track of Farren’s EP, which was released by Stiff Records:
Buy copies of In Their Own Write here and my Barney Bubbles monograph Reasons To Be Cheerful here.
