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Jennifer Edmondson, Michelle Egiziano, and Gavin Stevens faced many challenges in producing and researching photography for this issue. “There were great photographers shooting in 1977, and Jen worked tirelessly to ensure we had the best material from that year,” Egiziano says. “Shooting the groups in New York and Los Angeles was quite an experience, and meeting the mischievous Johnny Rotten was a blast!”

Jack Rabid
Writer, “Fighting Words” (page 60)
and “Punk Reunion: West Coast”
(page 88)

< For the editor of The Big Takeover, this issue was a chance to finally interview Johnny Rotten. “In the early ’80s [Sex Pistol] Steve Jones lived in my apartment for several months,” he says, “until he joined Chequered Past, a truly awful band.” Favorite 1977 album: The Saints’ (I’m) Stranded

Dorian Lynskey

Writer, “Punk Reunion: London” (page 72) > Lynskey saw all sides while engaging a collection of U.K. punk luminaries. “Eddie from the Vibrators and Poly Styrene represented punk’s two poles,” he says. “Styrene as the arty rebel and Eddie as the no-nonsense rock’n’roll bloke.” The London-based scribe, ³³, also writes for Q. Why London is the most punk city: “We took longer to ban smoking.”

Jeffrey Decoster

Illustrator, PJ Harvey review (page 95) < “This album is more quiet, ethereal, and haunting than her previous albums,” Decoster, ⁴³, says of White Chalk. “I thought of ghosts in a forest. Polly Jean is aging well—I’ve always thought she has a fine skeleton.” The Los Angeles native’s work also appears in Time and Esquire. Favorite PJ Harvey songs: “‘Long Snake Moan’ for gnarl, ‘Angelene’ for beauty.”