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Dead Kennedys
How The Dead Kennedys get its name?

I just want to know why they took it as a name.

Dead Kennedys hit numerous shows at local venues afterwards. Because provocative name of the band sometimes played under pseudonyms, including "Jaws" "The Creamsicles" and "The Pink Twinkies". The name controversy. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote in 1978, "Just when think that bad taste has reached its nadir, there comes a punk band called The Dead Kennedys, who play in the Mabuhay Gardens on 22 November, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedy 's murder. Despite mounting protests, the owner of Mabuhay says' can not cancel NOW – there is no contract. "No, apparently the type of contract some people have in mind. "[1] However, despite popular belief, the name was not meant to insult the Kennedy brothers, murdered, but to cite to Biafra, "to draw attention to the end of the American dream.

California Uber Alles (Dead Kennedys)


Dead Kennedys Holiday in Cambodia 24x36 Poster


Dead Kennedys Holiday in Cambodia 24×36 Poster


$6.99



Dead Kennedys~ Dead Kennedys Poster~ Holiday In Cambodia~ Rare Vintage Poster!!~ Approx 22 x 34


Dead Kennedys~ Dead Kennedys Poster~ Holiday In Cambodia~ Rare Vintage Poster!!~ Approx 22 x 34


$9.99


Dead Kennedys~ Dead Kennedys Poster~ Holiday In Cambodia~ Rare Vintage Poster!!~ Approx 22″ x 34″…

Dead Kennedys Logo Patch


Dead Kennedys Logo Patch


$3.89


Red and black Dead Kennedys logo patch. Can be ironed or sewn on….

Nouvelle Vague


Nouvelle Vague


$10.63


Recycling the 1980s sound has been in vogue lately, so it’s no surprise that the producing team known as Nouvelle Vague would find yet another way to mine the nostalgia for the early `80s, post-punk era. They’re doing it bossa nova style. The disc opens with a rendition of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” It’s a charming start, and with a breathy chanteuse on vocals, it’s exactly the ki…

Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death


Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death


$8.98


Track for track and album after album, the Dead Kennedys were the most relentlessly political and controversial stateside punk rock band to gain much public notoriety. Originally released in 1987, Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death collects 17 of the band’s singles, compilation tracks, and rarities spanning the eight years they played together. This is a wide and deep collection of favorites lik…

Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables


Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables


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Robin Hood: Season One


Robin Hood: Season One


$26.88


Follows the adventures of Robin, Earl of Huntingdon, who has returned from the Holy Wars to find his town and home overrun by a new sheriff who taxes…

Terror Within / Dead Space (Roger Corman's Cult Classics)


Terror Within / Dead Space (Roger Corman’s Cult Classics)


$16.99



The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Two-Disc Special Edition)


The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Two-Disc Special Edition)


$10.24


One of the best zombie shockers of the 1970s, this Spanish-Italian coproduction (also known as The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue and Don’t Open the Window, among other titles) is a real international affair. Inspired by George Romero’s genre-shattering American hit Night of the Living Dead, it was shot in England by a Spanish director with a largely British cast, and supplemented by Spanis…

Brain Dead [VHS]


Brain Dead [VHS]


$8.95


Adam Simon (Carnosaur) made his directoral debut with this mind game of a movie. Based on a decades-old screenplay by former Twilight Zone contributor Charles Beaumont, Simon dusted off and updated the script about an experimental brain researcher (Bill Pullman) who agrees to dig into the gray matter of a schizophrenic scientist (Bud Cort), only to fall prey to his patient’s psychosis. Or may…