Lipstick Traces

by Greil Marcus

punk, 28, 33–34, 37, 58, 61–71, 151, 242, 265, 270, 292, 327, 349, 401–413; antecedents of, 77–78; dada and, 17, 184–191, 199, 224, 292, 408; as fad, 71, 74–75; Los Angeles, 28, 89, 304; McLaren and origins of, 11, 12, 65; New York, 45; nihilism of, 8; shock of, 75–77; social roots of, 65–67; story of, 72–73; swastika motif of, 109–110, 235; vision of ugliness in, 67–70; unemployment and, 12; Zurich, 89. See also specific bands

  Pursuit of the Millennium, The (Cohn), 85, 220, 276, 289, 298

  Quatermass and the Pit. See Five Million Years to Earth

  Rada, Pravoslav, 342

  Radio Stars, 74

  Raincoats, 5

  Rambo movies, 97

  Ramones, 77

  Ranters, 25, 277, 279, 373, 402, 406, 410

  “Rational Embellishments to the City of Paris” (Lettrist International), 404

  Ravachol, Jules, 389

  Ravens, 241

  Ray, Man, 177, 180

  Ray, Nicholas, 247

  Reagan, Ronald, 91, 125–128, 130, 402

  Rebel, The (Camus), 43

  Rebel Without a Cause (Ray), 247, 251

  Red Harvest (Hammett), 193

  Red River (Hawks), 369

  Reed, Ishmael, 193

  “Reet Petite” (Wilson), 12

  Reid, Jamie, 12, 13, 28, 30, 171, 186, 265, 284, 405–408

  Reinhardt, Max, 141

  Reisel, René, 397, 398

  Replacements, 61

  Republican Freedom Party, 270

  Répulicain lorrain, Le, 388–389

  Republican Party, 312, 315

  Resistance, French, 239, 262, 268, 270, 363, 383

  Return of the Durutti Column, The (Bertrand), 384, 386–387, 390–392, 395, 407

  “Return the Gift” (Gang of Four), 5, 405

  reversible connecting factor, 205, 222, 223, 357–358

  Revolution (magazine), 204

  “Revolution, First and Forever!” (surrealist manifesto), 178, 227

  Revolution of Everyday Life, The (Vaneigem), 62, 156, 223, 321

  Révolution surréaliste, La (review), 288

  Rhodes, Bernard, 11–12

  Richelieu, Cardinal, 383

  Richie, Lionel, 104

  Richman, Jonathan, 37, 56–61

  Richter, Hans, 180, 188

  Ridgway, General Matthew, 164

  “Right to Work” (Chelsea), 12

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 178, 191, 231, 249, 381

  Rio Grande (Ford), 310

  Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (TV show), 175

  “Road Runner” (Richman/Modern Lovers), 56–58, 60–61

  Robespierre, Maximillien, 266

  Robey, Don, 124

  “Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay” (Danny and the Juniors), 77

  Rock ’n’ Roll (Lennon), 352

  Rogers, Ginger, 369

  Rohmer, Eric, 301

  Rolland, Romain, 141

  Rolling Stones, 38, 61, 83

  Rosenberg, Harold, 39–40, 122–123, 158

  Rosenblum, David, 89

  Rosenstock, Sami. See Tzara, Tristan

  Rosenthal, Barbara, 309

  Rotten, Johnny (John Lydon), 1–2, 6–12, 21, 31, 54, 91, 99, 145, 187, 199, 204, 384, 408–409; as antichrist, 1, 5, 6, 90; blasphemies of, 87, 88; coining of name of, 74; in final performance with Sex Pistols, 30, 33, 79, 83, 85, 105, 106, 108, 113–115; in Germany, 13, 15, 70; McLaren and, 2, 25–26, 30, 56; post–Sex Pistols music career of, 68, 413; rock ’n’ roll songs recorded by, 57, 60; situationists and, 16, 171, 284, 407; Wolcott’s review of, 285

  Routine Pleasures (Gorin), 78

  Roux, Jacques, 395

  Roxy (London), 6, 35, 64–65, 68, 185, 190, 191

  Roxy London WC 2 (Jan-Apr 77), The, 5, 188

  Roxy Music, 77

  Rozanov, Vasily, 62

  Ruge, Arnold, 174

  Rullier, Jean, 260, 287

  Ruins: The Complete Works of God and the State (God and the State), 78

  Ryan, Jim, 318

  Sadat, Anwar, 97

  Sagan, Françoise, 238

  Saint ghetto de prêts (Pomerand), 236, 237

  Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de, 19, 152, 170, 266, 288, 289, 310, 313, 321, 333–334, 372; execution of, 323, 325

  “St. Lazare” (Bruant), 191

  Salinger, J. D., 238

  Salmon, Joseph, 277

  “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” (McKenzie), 83

  San Francisco Chronicle, 100, 272, 354

  San Francisco Examiner, 69

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 235, 281, 387

  Savage, Jon, 34

  Savio, Mario, ix, 411

  Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph, 178

  Schérer, Maurice, 301

  Schneider, Peter, 70

  Schwitters, Kurt, 186

  Seven Beauties (Wertmuller), 43

  “Seven Day Weekend” (Bonds), 30

  7 manifestes dada (Tzara), 178

  “Seventeen” (Sex Pistols), 171

  Sex Pistols, 1–21, 30–31, 40, 54, 74, 75, 87, 88, 102, 109, 173, 199, 214, 265, 326, 409, 410, 413; absolute demands of, 2–3, 99, 412; Adorno and, 68; banning of, 9–10, 138; Costello on, 3–4; final concert of, 30, 32–33, 79, 83–85, 105, 106, 108, 110–115; flyer for, 30, 32; McLaren’s promotion and exploitation of, 25–27, 30, 45, 56, 65, 77, 404–405; as negationists versus nihilists, 8–10, 16; punk bands sparked by, 30, 34–35, 62, 64, 67, 70–71, 103, 403, 404; situationists and, 139–140, 171; sound of, 7, 60–61; televised “fuck” of, 3, 9, 185; Townshend on, 1–2; Wolcott’s review of, 285

  Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles), 38

  Shadows of Knight, 37

  “Shake, Rattle and Roll” (Turner), 402

  Shattuck, Roger, 239, 283

  Shelley, Mary, 203

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 132

  Shoah (Lanzmann), 114

  Siberian Diary (Dwinger), 43

  Sinan, Rashid al-Din, 409

  Sister Carrie (Dreiser), 120

  Situationist International (SI), ix, 19, 22, 45–48, 85, 110, 126, 140, 167–171, 236, 249, 327–331, 377–380; Adorno and, 363–364; Bernstein in, 348–350, 378, 392–394; Clark and, 139; dada and, 21, 170, 196, 222–224, 321, 406, 407; disciples refused by, 286; exclusion of members from, 151, 385, 405; fathers of, 17, 170, 288; formal dissolution of, 377; founding of, 16, 48, 53, 122–123, 154, 164, 171, 327, 346; leaflet inspired by, 49; Lefebvre and, 132, 134, 136–137, 385; and May ’68, 16–17, 28–30, 139, 223, 327, 328, 394–395, 398–400, 404; myths of, 327–328; on Paris Commune, 117, 118, 130–132; punk and, 408, 409; reversible connecting factor of, 222, 223, 205, 357–358; on revolution in the service of poetry, 287–288; slogans of, 45–46, 377; and Strasbourg students, 328, 384–392; Trocchi in, 358–359; urban vision of, 25, 129–130; on Watts riot, 165–168. See also dérive; détournement; Internationale situationniste

  Siurlai, Ravien, 199, 203, 220

  Slash (magazine), 28, 30

  Slaughter and the Dogs, 71

  Slits, 5, 34–35, 36, 37, 69

  Sly and the Family Stone, 38–39, 90

  Smith, Joseph, 291

  Sniffin’ Glue (fanzine), 186

  Society for the Rehabilitation of Karl Marx and Ravachol, 389

  Society of the Spectacle, The (Debord), 92, 119–120, 130, 154, 290, 338, 340, 393

  Solidarity, 95–96, 118, 388

  Songs for Swinging Lovers (Radio Stars), 74

  Sonic Youth, 45, 89

  Sorbonne, 204, 349, 383, 397; Occupations Committee of, 398

  Sottsass, Ettore, Jr., 342

  Spanish Civil War, 270, 289, 354, 387, 389

  Sparticists, 105–108, 141

  Spenser, Brenda, 7–8

  Spielberg, Steven, 286

  Spinoza, Baruch, 178

  Spiritualists, 99–100

  “Split” (Liliput), 5

  Springsteen, Bruce, 246

  Spungen, Nancy, 27, 30

  “Stairway to Heaven” (Led Zeppeli
n), 44, 54, 61

  Stalin, Joseph, 267

  Stalinism, 158, 192, 267, 282, 289, 377, 388

  Stark Fist of Removal (fanzine), 242

  Starkweather, Charley, 8, 244, 245, 247–248, 250, 301

  Stax Records, 38

  Stendhal, 249

  “Stepping Stone” (Monkees/Sex Pistols), 56

  Stewart, Rod, 44, 58, 61

  Stirner, Max, 178

  Stooges, 37, 61, 77

  Strasbourg, University of, 328, 384, 386–387, 389–391, 395

  Strategies Against Architecture (Eisenstürzende Neubauten), 88

  Strauss, Steve, 177

  Streets (punk singles collection), 62

  Strummer, Joe, ix, 33, 34

  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 166

  Sturges, Preston, 78

  Styrene, Poly, 75, 137, 187

  “Substitute” (Who/Sex Pistols), 56

  Suburban Press (journal), 406

  Suburbia (Spheeris), 84

  Suicidal Tendencies, 89

  Sumner, Bernard, 6

  Sun Records, 58, 124

  Sun Yat-sen, 204

  Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unite de temps. See On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time

  surrealism, 8, 17, 20, 83, 156, 170, 184, 185, 192, 239, 266, 268, 320–321, 330, 381; dada and, 187, 188; Debord’s references to, in Hurlements, 306–307, 310; Lefebvre and, 178; lettrist denunciation of, 233, 234; Notre-Dame invasion and, 262, 288–289

  Survival Research Laboratories, 89

  Survivor, The (Des Pres), 43

  Suso, Heinrich, 274–275, 279–280, 406

  Tacky World (fanzine), 242

  “Tale in Hard Time” (Fairport Convention), 78

  Talking Heads, 186

  Tanner, Alain, 224

  Taylor, Elizabeth, 99 Taylor, James, 44, 61

  Taylorism, 100, 101

  Teddy Boys, 110, 251, 252

  Temptations, 34

  Ten Days that Shook the University (Situationist International), 389–390, 394

  Tessa, 35

  Thatcher, Margaret, 109–110, 125–126, 272

  “Theory of the Dérive” (Debord), 360, 361

  “Theses on the Cultual Revolution” (Debord), 53

  There’s a riot goin’ on (Sly and the Family Stone), 38–39

  Thérésa, 116, 117, 132, 137, 200

  Theresa of Avila, 274

  Thiers, Adolphe, 116

  “32 Weeks” (Mekons), 403

  This Year’s Model (Costello), 4

  Thompson, Gudrun, 84

  Thompson, Jim, 193

  Thompson, Richard, 78

  Three Flames, 242

  Thriller (Jackson), 90–91, 98, 99, 102–104

  Thucydides, 325

  Til, Sonny, 240–244, 243

  Time magazine, 293

  Tlingit, 364, 368

  “To Be Done with the Comforts of Nihilism” (Debord), 354

  Tory Party, 109, 125, 130

  Tour de feu, La (review), 249

  Tourraine, Alain, 395

  Tous les chevaux du roi (Bernstein), 327, 378, 392

  Townshend, Pete, 1–2, 53–54

  Traité de bave et d’eternit. See Treatise on Slime and Eternity

  Traité d’économie nuclaire (Isou), 250

  Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations. See Revolution of Everyday Life, The

  Treasure Island (Stevenson), 360

  Treatise on Slime and Eternity (Isou), 228, 300, 310, 317

  Trip to the Moon, A (Méliès), 310

  Trocchi, Alexander, 17, 162, 358–360

  Trotsky, Leon, 398

  Trotskyism, 282, 391

  Trout Mask Replica (Captain Beefheart), 61

  Truffault, François, 181

  Tucholsky, Kurt, 141

  Tulsa (Clark), 8

  Turgenev, Ivan, 191

  Turner, Big Joe, 402

  “Tutti Frutti” (Little Richard), 88

  Tzara, Tristan, 185–187, 191, 197, 198, 208, 216, 219, 231, 234; in Cabaret Voltaire, 179–181, 188–189, 192–194; Lefebvre and, 178, 226, 227

  “Ü” (Kleenex), 5

  Ubu Roi (Jarry), 191, 309

  “Under the Bridges of Paris” (Morgenstern), 191

  Union nationale des étudiants de France, 387

  United Fruit Company, 372

  Unité d’habitation, L’ (Marseilles), 346

  University of California at Berkeley, Free Speech Movement at. See Free Speech Movement

  Unknown Pleasures (Joy Division), 5

  Up, Ari, 35

  Ur (review), 258

  Urban, Peter, 28, 30, 123

  utopianism, 44, 136, 203, 322, 329, 345–346, 409

  Vaché, Jacques, 310

  van der Elsken, Ed, ix, 320, 324, 349–352, 355

  Vanderhaeghe, Guy, 328

  Van der Leun, Gerard, 132

  Vaneigem, Raoul, 62, 68, 117, 123, 133, 156, 223–224, 265, 321, 377, 386, 406

  Vargas Llosa, Mario, 177–178

  Velvet Underground, 37, 38, 58, 61, 77

  Ventura, Michael, 39

  Verdun, Battle of, 192, 213–214

  Verlaine, Paul, 191, 231

  Veuillot, Louis, 115–116, 137, 139, 200

  Vian, Boris, 235

  Vibranaires, 240

  Vicious, Sid, 27, 31, 56, 79, 109, 110

  Vienet, René, 395, 399

  Vietnam War, 48, 97, 411

  Village Voice, 279, 285

  Vincent, Gene, 34

  Virgin records, 9

  Visiteurs du soir, Les (Carné), 312, 313

  Vollmer, Jurgen, 351, 352

  Voltaire, 190, 198 von Stroheim, Erich, 300

  Vox Pop, 199

  Wajda, Andrzej, 96

  “Wake Up” (Essential Logic), 5

  Walesa, Lech, 96

  Walker, Benjamin, 209

  Wall Jumper, The (Schneider), 70

  Warhol, Andy, 186, 213

  Warner Bros., 58

  Warner Communications, 39–40

  War of the End of the World, The (Vargas Llosa), 177–178

  Washouts Club, 282–284, 286, 287

  Watts riot, 165–168, 171, 330, 378

  Wayne, John, 369

  “We Are the World” (USA for Africa), 104, 125

  Wehara, Muddy, 72–73

  Werewolf of Paris, The (Endore), 118

  Wertmuller, Lina, 43

  Westerberg, Paul, 61

  Westmoreland, General William, 48

  “Where Were You?” (Mekons), 403

  Whitby, Susan. See Logic, Lora

  White, Mark, 404

  White Light/White Heat (Velvet Underground), 38

  “White Riot”/“1977” (Clash), 10–11

  Who, 1, 44, 56, 61, 77

  “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On” (Lewis), 59, 205

  Wild One, The (Benedek), 246, 251

  Williamson, Sonny Boy, 55

  Wilson, Colin, 359

  Wilson, Edmund, 48, 170–171

  Wilson, Jackie, 11–12

  Winterland Ballroom (San Francisco), 32–33, 78–79, 83, 84, 105, 108, 109, 111–112, 115

  Wire, 5, 68

  Wolcott, James, 285

  Wolman, Gil J, ix, 17, 160, 163, 257, 258, 301, 311, 334, 340, 341, 342, 344–346, 347, 382, 404, 408; in Chaplin attack, 316–317; on détournement, 168, 372; exclusion from Lettrist International of, 346, 348; film by, 305–306; and formation of Lettrist International, 315, 331–332; in Hurlements, 309, 310; letter to Brau from, 323, 325, 326, 354; Lettrist International manifesto signed by, 339; and publication of Potlatch, 18, 321, 355, 364, 370; sound poetry of, 255–257, 303, 305

  World According to Garp, The (Irving), 43

  World War I, 179–182, 184, 204, 211, 236; German victim of, 208

  World War II, 68, 158, 192, 239–240, 266–268, 283, 348

  X-ray Spex, 5, 64, 65, 75, 187, 405

  Youth Fr
ont, 250, 254, 309, 333, 338

  Youth Uprising, 254, 255, 300

  Zola, Emile, 268

  “Zurich Chronicle” (Tzara), 191

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Greil Marcus was born in San Francisco in 1945. He is the author of Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ’n’ Roll Music (1975, 2008), Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession (1991), In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977–92 (originally titled Ranters and Crowd Pleasers, 1993), The Dustbin of History (1995), The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes (originally titled Invisible Republic, 1997), Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives (2000), ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ (2002), Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads (2005), and The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice (2006). He is the editor of Stranded (1979, 2008), Lester Bangs’s Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1987), Best Music Writing 2009 (2009), and, with Sean Wilentz, The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love & Liberty in the American Ballad (2004). With Werner Sollors, he is the editor of A New Literary History of America, published by Harvard in 2009.

  Greil Marcus has written columns on music, film, books, and culture for the San Francisco Express-Times, Rolling Stone, Politicks, New West, California, the Village Voice, Artforum, Interview, Salon, the New York Times, Esquire, City Pages, and The Believer. In recent years he has taught at Berkeley, Princeton, the New School University in New York, and the University of Minnesota. He lives in Berkeley with his wife, Jenny Marcus.