The Slits guitarist’s new memoir, Clothes Clothes Clothes. Music Music Music. Boys Boys Boys., catalogs a life lived in style.
From 1978 to 1981, Viv Albertine was a part of the groundbreaking all-female punk band The Slits.
Which helped paved the way for later amazing all-girl bands, feminist-tinged pop, and Riot Grrl movements.
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The Slits, along with bands like the X-Ray Spex, The Raincoats, and Blondie, added a vital female voice to the often male-dominated punk world.
Here's Viv (back row, center) with (clockwise from top left) Debbie Harry of Blondie, Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Pauline Black of The Selecter, Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex, and Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders.
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Fronted by 14-year-old dreadlocked spitfire Ari Up, The Slits released two albums in their short career: Cut and The Return of the Giant Slits.
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Punk Icon Viv Albertine Shares Her Greatest Style Moments