1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston

Meredith Jacobson Marciano show us what was exciting Bostonians in the 1970s

British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New Dolls certainly were. So too the Ramones and Dead Boys. But no word of the Turds – and a sound punk name might well have gone to waste. What of the Jetts? Real Kids? If you know, we’d love to hear from.

 

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