The Premier English Shopgirl of the 70's
Jordan Quickly
Starsign: Cancer
Occupation: Shop assistant, model, actress, veterinary nurse, cat breeder.
Nationality: English
Introducing Jordan
Jordan (born Pamela Rooke on 23 June 1955) in Seaford, East Sussex, is a model and actress noted for her work with Vivienne Westwood and the SEX boutique in the Kings Road area of London in the mid-1970s.
She was a fixture at many of the early Sex Pistols performances. Her style and fashion sense ? a platinum-blonde bouffant hairdo with dark raccoon-like eye make-up ? made her a highly visible icon of the London punk subculture. In the late 1970s, she briefly dated singer Adam Ant and served as the manager for Ant's band Adam and the Ants. She recorded several tracks as a guest vocalist with the band for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel's Peel Sessions.
She made a cameo appearance in Derek Jarman's debut film, Sebastiane and played the lead role in his follow-up film Jubilee, as the punk "anti-historian" Amyl Nitrate. She can also be seen in The Great Rock and Roll Swindle wearing an "only anarchists are pretty" t-shirt.
Jordan now works as a veterinary nurse and breeds Burmese cats.
Jordan In Her Own Words
'Punk, really, died for me when the Pistols split up. It couldn't have gone on - it was like an orgasm, there were a few seconds then ....pfft.''I am still unconventional. I never think twice before putting on a pair of kinky spike heeled shoes for a night out, or mixing something wacky with more conventional clothes.'
'My mother always told me I was repulsive'
SEX
SEX was a boutique run by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood at 430 King's Road, London in the 1970's, whose fashion clothes heavily influenced the punk movement aesthetics.
Jordan on Amazon
Jordan with Johnny Rotten Filmography
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
Jordan's Dance (1977)
Jubilee (1977) .... Amyl Nitrite
Sebastiane (1976) .... Emperor's guest
Jordan Clips
Jordan in Mondrian style warpaint Seditionaries/SEX Auctions
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Adam and The Ants
Jordan, Chrissie Hynde and Vivienne Westwood promoting SEX. Google Blogs
- THEY MEANT IT, MAAAN… Jon Savage's England's Dreaming Tapes on ...
- The visual language of fashion also helped construct the scandalous, confrontational spectacle of pu...
- 3:AM Magazine » The Summer of Hate 5: Six
- people remember punk and calling it punk people remember it in black and white black and black / bla...
Links
- Seditionaries
- Jordans ex-employers
- Only Anarchists Are Pretty
- More from Jordan's ex-employers
- Jordan - 'Sex' The Shop
- Punk 77
- A right royal knees-up | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
- Jubilee
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