Julia Gorton & Rick Brown: Beat It!
"It’s this DIY thing that we did without money, without knowledge, without a clear idea of what we were doing....But we were pretty determined. We just did it."
In the mid-’70s, just as the first wave of NYC punk was reaching its apotheosis, high school sweethearts Rick Brown and Julia Gorton fled their native Delaware for Downtown colleges (NYU and Parsons, respectively). Enamored with buzzy local bands like Talking Heads and the Dead Boys, and inspired by the early British punk zine Sniffin’ Glue, they decide…
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