But then someone else had told me about the series of high rises on the city's southside. How they started out bright and cheerful and wound up the colour of mud. Which is where they keep the immigrants stashed . . . Poverty exists everywhere. I mean, even at the gigs there's kids who've never seen money.
People are poor.
They tend to be the richer ones. Cut to the much more tolerant attitude towards the Pistols from the Scandinavian authorities. It's either because they're relatively content and therefore don't need scapegoats the way our own petit bourgeoisie do . . . I'd say the second myself. The younger kids understand.