Talking about being lucky, Reid whom loved football could have obviously played it professionally but he was rejected and there was when this have pushed him towards attending to an art school, just like almost every one of us.
Back then, when he was in school (London), Reid heard about the riots that were taking place in Paris (1968) which such protests whom started by students all the way consumerism, capitalism and order have finally spread within people working in factories until it reached almost around quarter of the population, and this is where Reid have had energized his anarchist beliefs more than they already were, due to all the slogans he kept in mind that the students in the French riots have built up.
Reid, later on in the beginning of the 70s, he has found a job in an anarchist printing press as where he established himself there as such company printed a lot of media for different local groups, which includes the black movement and the women’s movement. Reid states that back then he was messing around with design, but as because they had no money, he was cutting up newspapers and doing collages, and that’s where punk got its looks from.
Such press that Reid was working in have been creating an absolute shock wave, and this is where a former class mate of his; Malcolm McLaren have contacted Jamie as he wanted Reid to work on a project that McLaren was on, which then eventually Malcolm have established the Sex Pistols and that is where the Sex Pistols’ materials got their visuals from, and let’s be honest; without any doubt, the music and the style are fit for each other in every single way.
Research -
Deborah (2008). Punk The Whole Story. London: Penguin Company. 162-163.
May 1968 events in France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_events_in_France.
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