contortions
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And to people like Richard Hell and the Voidoids and the Contortions and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, conglomerations that included people I knew.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2020
Zilkha encouraged no wave band the Contortions to record a disco album, Off-White, and attracted artists who thought along similar lines to him and Esteban: the Waitresses, Don and David Was, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2020
“Peter Laughner was one of the most phenomenal guitar players I’ve ever heard,” said Bertei, who was roommates with Laughner in late 1976 and early 1977 before moving to New York to join the Contortions.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2019
The Mudd Club was one of my favorite spots to go out — that’s where I was introduced to James Chance and the Contortions and Talking Heads.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018
I beckon'd to my Comrades to follow me, and signify'd to them by my Gestures and various Contortions of Body, that our Deliverance was nigh.
From The Travels and Adventures of James Massey by Patot, Simon Tyssot de
