Unusually, here’s a Guardian article with comments worth reading. It’s about Graffiti, so the Guardianistas are out reminiscing about slogans of decades paste:
During Ronald Reagan’s early 80’s anti-Soviet Union sabre rattling era around corner from uni in two foot high lettering with brush in black on bright yellow building site hoarding:
MUTATE NOW! AVOID POST BOMB RUSH
Northwick Park roundabout, 1970s –
NICHOLAS PARSONS IS THE NEO-OPIATE OF THE PEOPLE
. Done by students from Harrow CHE nearby (now Uni Westminster art school or something) around 1972. A suburban masterpiece, it was still there 15 years later, and the source of much local frustration to drivers having to explain what neo-opiate is to their curious kids in the back seat.
I AM THE SCHIZOID OCTOPUS MAN
… Wilslow Rd. Manchester, most of the 1970s-4ft high, 50 ft long on a low brick wall in Rusholme.
ART IS A HAMMER, NOT A FUCKING MIRROR
on wall opposite Liverpool Art College Foundation Course building, mid 70s.
ONLY 60,000 SHOPPING DAYS TILL THE COLLAPSE OF CAPITALISM
— 1980’s Brixton
ALL MEN ARE RAPISTS. DISARM RAPISTS
. Coventry 1980 something. always made me shudder.
Brixton, 1978:
FIGHT TO MAKE LIFE POETRY