According to Jon Savage on Twitter, former Sounds journalist Jane Suck has died. She later wrote for the NME as Jane Solanas and later under her real name of Jane Jackman.
I was an avid Sounds reader from 1977-1980 or so and she was the best thing in it. Absolutely gripping, possibly speed-fuelled – dispatches from the front line that seemed to have her whole self in them. She seemed to capture the spirit of the times in both what she wrote and how she wrote it. I always liked her writing wherever it appeared and was sad when she seemed to just disappear off the radar.
I often wondered what had happened to her but was never able to find anything online. And now this.
So I’m sitting feeling sad about someone who I know very little about but whose work is embedded in a particular time of my life. What else to do but write about here and see if it has resonance with anyone else.
Some examples of her writing here: https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/jane-suck
A troubled but talented soul. The S.C.U.M. Manifesto is an incredible piece of writing. Jonathan Swift be like “Woah, girl!”
Wasn’t that Valerie Solanas?
I now turn to Hubert to inform us.
Indeed it was. Just reading the Souness book on Lou Reed which mentions the attack on Warhol.
Lou Reed and John Cale also mention Valerie Solanas in the lyrics of the song “I Believe”
Graeme Souness wrote a book about Lou Reed?
and Alan Hansen did a book about Nico
You ought to read Terry Mac on Mo Tucker…
“No way was he a world-class guitarist…I blame Paul Pogba”.
Sounes not sure where the rogue s came from.
Graham Souness wrote a book on Lou Reed? Truly a man of many talents (Souness, that is).
As mentioned above and my apology. Graeme I believe.
Ah right. Now I ‘m just off to the Jeff Beck thread to say how much I enjoyed Odelay
I’m sure you will enjoy @soundsclips on Twitter, an account which has copies of articles from Sounds in the late 70s. I can’t believe how entertaining the letters page was.
Thanks!
She ended the very first review of Adam & The Ants, (in Sounds in ’77 when they were just The Ants), with the line ‘Unplug the jukebox’ (long before ‘Ant Music’ was writ).
She was the Sounds Julie Burchill wasn’t she?