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The sadistic blowback she faced for publicly outing the child abuse of the Catholic Church and its cover-up would have destroyed most
Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums)
and the group's cutting-edge visual aesthetic
and personal anecdotes
who dressed punk before there was punk
Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow elvis The sadistic blowback she facedn 1978, Siouxsie and the Banshees declared 'We don't see ourselves in the same context as other rock'n'roll bands.' A decade later, and in the stark aftermath of a devastating storm, the band retreated to a 17th century mansion house in the deracinated Sussex countryside to write their ninth studio album, Peepshow. Here, the band absorbed the bygone, rural atmosphere and its inspirational mise en scne, thus framing the record cinematically, as
