"One day you will wake up and know what side of the bed you've been lying on."

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Can anyone help me find an image of this shirt designed by Bernie Rhodes for Sex around 1976?

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Please Kill Me has a photo by Bob Gruen of J. Thunders wearing it, but the text, though visible, is not very legible. BTW the first line goes "you're gonna wake up one morning and know what side of the bed you've been lying on!"

― xero (xero), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, that's really helpful!

If anyone has the complete text, it would help, too.

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

It's on pp. 84-85 in the paperback edition of England's Dreaming.

― xero (xero), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Not in the hardback?

There are repeated refs to it in Last Gang In Town, but never a very complete list.

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I assume it is, but I was looking at my paperback copy and don't know if the page numbers in the hardcover are the same. They probably are.

― xero (xero), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Jamie Reid -- Up They Rise: Incomplete Works of Jamie Reid Faber 1987

I think there was a better pic in here...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks!

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I always understood that it was designed by Vivienne Westwood from a list that had been written by Malcolm McLaren (hence the mention of "Kutie Jones and his Sex Pistols", which was almost certainly the first time that the band had been publicised in any form and evidently predates them recruiting John Lydon.... if Bernie Rhodes had been involved wouldn't there have been some mention of the London SS as well / instead?).

I can't find an image for it anywhere online but the text of it is:

"You're gonna wake up one morning and know what side of the bed
you've been lying on!

(Hates:) Television (not the group)/Mick Jagger/The Liberal Party/John Betjeman/George Melly Kenny & Cash/Michael Caine/Charles Forte/Sat nights in Oxford Street/SECURICOR impotence or complacency (slogan & Robert Carr)/Parking tickets/19, Honey, Harpers, Vogue in fact all magazines that treat their readers as idiots/Bryan Ferry/Salvador Dali/A Touch of Class/BRUT for--who cares?/The Presidents Men/Lord Carrington/The Playboy Club/Alan Brien, Anthony Haden-Guest, Vic Lownes, to be avoided first thing in the morning/ANTIQUARIUS and all it stands for/Michael Roberts/POP STARS who are thick and useless/YES/Leo Sayer/David Essex/Top Of The Pops/Rod Stewart oh for money and an audience/Elton John--quote in NME 25 Sept re birthday spending/West End shopping/Stirling Cooper, Jean Junction, BROWNS, Take Six, C&A/Mars bars/Good Fun entertainment when it's really not good or not funny Bernard Delfont/a passive audience/arse lickers/John Osborne Harry Pinter Max Bygraves Melvyn Bragg Philip Jenkinson the ICA and its symposiums John Schlesinger Andr‚ Previn David Frost Peter Bogdanovich/Capital Radio/The Village Trousershop (sorry bookshop)/The narrow monopoly of media causing harmless creativity to appear subversive/THE ARTS COUNCIL/Head of the Metropolitan Police/Synthetic foods/Tate & Lyle/Corrupt councillors/G.K.N./Grey skies/Dirty books that aren't all that dirty/Andy Warhol/Nigel Waymouth David Hockney & Victorianism/The Stock Exchange/Ossie Clark/The Rag Trade/E.L.P./Antiques of any sort/Housing Trusts who profit by bad housing/Bianca Jagger/Fellini/John Dungar/J. Artur's/Tramps/Dingwals without H/Busby Berkeley MOVIES/Sir Keith Joseph and his sensational speeches/National Front/ W. H. Smith/Censorship/Chris Welch and his lost Melody Makers/Clockwork soul routines/Bob Harris (or the sniffling Whistler as we know him)/The job you hate but are too scared to pack in/Interview magazine--Peter Lester/rich boys dressed as poor boys/Chelita Secunda, Nicky Weymouth, June Bolan, Pauline Fordham halitosis/Rose & Anne Lambton Chinless people/Antonia Frazer/Derek Marlow/Anne Scott-James/Sydney Edwards/Christopher Logue/Osbert Lancaster/Shaw Taylor--whispering grass/The Archers/BIBAS/Old clothes old ideas and all this resting in the country business/The suburbs/The Divine Light Mission/All those fucking saints.

(Loves:) Eddie Cochran/Christine Keeler/Susan 602 2509/My monster in black tights/Raw Power/Society For Cutting Up Men/RUBBER Robin Hood Ronnie Biggs BRAZIL/Jamaican Rude Boys/Bamboo Records/Coffee bars that sell whiskey under the counter/THE SCENE--Ham Yard/Point Blank/Monica the girl who stole those paintings/Legal Aid--when you can get it/Pat Arrowsmith/Valerie Solanis/The Price Sisters/Mervin Jones article The Challenge To Capitalism in New Statesman 4th Oct. 74/Buenoventura Durutti The Black Hand Gang/Archie Shepp Muhammed Ali Bob Marley Jimi Hendrix Sam Cooke/Kutie Jones and his SEX PISTOLS/This country is run by a group of fascists so said Gene Vincent in a 1955 US radio interview/Seven Days with Alexander Cockburn/Olympia Press/Strange Death of Liberal England--Dangerfield/Mrs Scully love goddess from Shepherds Bush her house slaves and Search magazine/Labour Exchanges as your local/FREE RADIO stations/A chance to do it for more than a month without being ripped off/The Anarchist Spray Ballet/Lenny Bruce/Joe Orton/Ed Albee/Paustovsky/Iggy Pop/John Coltrane/Spunky James Brown/Dewey Redman/KING TUBBY'S sound system/Zoot suits and dreadlocks/Kilburn & the High Roads/Four Aces Dalston/Limbo 90--Wolfe/Tiger Tiger--Bester/Bizarre Humphries/Woolf--Waves/Walt Whitman poet/Exupery, Simone de Beauvoir, Dashiell Hammett, Dave Cooper, Nick Kent, Carl Gayle writers/Mel Ramos painter/Davd Holmes the newsman/Mal Dean cartoonist/Guy Stevens records/Mal Huff funny stories/D.H./Valve amps/Art Prince/Marianne Faithfull/Jim Morrison/Alex Trocchi--Young Adam/Patrick Heron v. The Tate Gallery and all those American businesslike painters/Lady Sinthia 908 5569/Experiment with Time--Dunne/John Lacey and his boiled book v. St Martin's Art School experiment to be seen in New York. Imagination...."

Fwiw some of the unfamiliar names in the "Loves" list (Susan 602 2509, Lady Sinthia 908 5569) were apparently taken from the calling cards that some of the local prostitutes used to put on notice boards in shops and leave in phone boxes etc.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Iirc there was also a very specific reason for the inclusion in the "hate" list of "Shaw Taylor--whispering grass" (a reference to the host of a TV programme called "Police 5", a sort of early forerunner of "Crimewatch" which appealed to the public to help solve crimes) which eludes me right now but I think it was something to do with some clothes (intended for Malcolm & Civinenne's "Sex" shop?) being seized and impounded by the police.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

June Bolan? What did she ever do to justify dislike?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Dunno. Maybe something to do with June's involvement with Pink Floyd's management around the time they threw Syd out of the band (although why single her out and not mention any of his so-called band mates?!); or the fact that she had left Marc Bolan for that bloke out of the Arrows (although afaik Marc was seeing Gloria Jones at the time, so again, why....) but I suspect that it was either that she represented some particular sort of social "type" or perhaps something more personal and specific.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

there are pictures of it here:

http://www.punkpistol.com/html/clothes3.html

different variations too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

"You're gonna wake up one morning and KNOW what side of the bed you've been lying on."

to be precise.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

oh but someone already pointed that out.

that's probably the best site to see sex t-shirts on the web.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

it doesn't want me to copy a picture of it though. i'm kinda dumb though.

http://www.punkpistol.com/html/pics/14_clothes3.html

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Any number of dealers on eBay and elsewhere will do you a repro. I got mine from killer-rocks-on.

― Soukesian (Soukesian), Saturday, 13 January 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Fine though Bester's "Tiger, Tiger" is, it's disorienting to come across it here. Wonder who was reading it.

― Soukesian (Soukesian), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

here's an interesting book on the history of rock t-shirts. seriously! loads of good pics and smart non-academic text.

http://www.amazon.com/Rock-Tease-Golden-T-Shirts-Vintage/dp/0810970538

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I was going to make this thread the other day. Saw the new one and was curios as to what constituted what back then. Funny coincidence.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 15 January 2007 07:46 (seventeen years ago) link

what would a good latter day version of this shirt look like?

― latebloomer da nutty tarkovsky (latebloomer), Monday, 15 January 2007 07:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i think i might want to make one

― latebloomer da nutty tarkovsky (latebloomer), Monday, 15 January 2007 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Funnily enough I was thinking about this the other day (and how I wish I'd been the right age and in the right place to buy and wear one). I wonder what a list of 2006 Loves and Hates would look like.

Archie Shepp, Iggy Pop, John Coltrane, Spunky James Brown, Dewey Redman, KING TUBBY's sound system...oh yes, definitely my kind of people!

(though I would have put George Melly and David Essex in the LOVES section)
(but then of course I would say that)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 15 January 2007 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"I wonder what a list of 2006 Loves and Hates would look like."

If Malcolm was compiling the list I'm not convinced that "Kutie Jones and his SEX PISTOLS" would still appear in the "Loves" section....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

"I wonder what a list of 2006 Loves and Hates would look like."

the worst ilm thread ever

― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

yeah, it was deffo designed by bernie rhodes.

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

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