Punk Rock by Richard Allen

Author:Richard Allen [Allen, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-24T13:37:36+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Listening through his headphones, Steve Pepper carried out his normal type of review on the latest single to arrive at Spins. He was pecking at his typewriter, scanning a hand-out at the same time. He did not need to actually hear the whole record. He knew what it was about - the hand-out told him everything. The money in his wallet told him more - he would recommend the release as another Top Ten possible.

Spins editorial had it made. All the guys accepted payola. The ancient code of honesty had no place in this organisation: Just like his 'sermons' on the mount of his personal loathings. They did not belong in a music journal, but he made damned certain they were slanted into his material. Screw the ethics! If he wanted kids to go on a rampage then, by Satan, they would.

Steve Pepper didn't realise that he was a most lonely youth. He had no friends on whom he could call in an emergency. His acquaintances believed in what drove him to cinder journalistic honesty, but they, like himself, shunned friendships of a lasting variety. Looking back to his school days he could find not one kindly face upon which the light of compassion would shine. And as for women - his treatment of them made fresh enemies.

The men he crawled for regarded him as a necessary evil, and nothing more. He was, in their greedy eyes, a creature deserving outstanding contempt. While he occupied a tower of market power he was acceptable, used, wined and dined, made to feel important. But let the tower crack, shake, collapse, and Steve Pepper would be buried underneath the rubble of his unethical behaviour.

Steve did not count the cost. He did not recognise the signs in himself. He could have spotted them in others, but blindness had a nasty habit of casting its sightless eyes upon one's own failings.

So Steve composed another shit-stirring, pissed-up review and let the chips fall where he kept chopping down the tree of his integrity.

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