“We thought LUST FOR LIFE would come out and knock the world backward; we were wrong. It was kind of like working on FUN HOUSE. That was a great album…people hated it.” – Iggy Pop (From a 1977 interview with Search & Destroy’s Lynn X.)
San Francisco Punk
Dead Kennedys Shut Down the Island (1983)
The Dead Kennedys headlined the last show at the Island in Houston on May 14, 1983.
According to “A History of Houston Punk Rock Fanzines” by Henry “Wild Dog” Weissborn, which was published in PUNX, the Island officially closed in April 1983.
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