DO LOOK BACK
Daniel Kramer’s photos from ’64 to ’65 are like capturing Dylan goes electric in a bottle.
Imagine being present when a movement starts to take hold, when the world begins to take notice of something that would eventually change everything. Like when the Sex Pistols played Manchester in June 1976—a legendary show with only a few dozen in attendance but often referred to as “the gig that changed the world." Among those present was a murderers’ row of attendees who all left the gig inspired to start their own bands, including Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley (who formed Buzzcocks); Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, and Peter Hook (who formed Joy Division, and eventually New Order after the death of Curtis); Mark E. Smith (the Fall); Morrissey (the Smiths); and Tony Wilson (founder of Factory Records and the Hacienda nightclub). History in the making.