Behind the song’s snarling punk melody is an E. M. Forster-like plotline, critiquing class division in Britain:Doorman, let me in the doorSpent all my money, you ain’t getting no more wagesSure Sir, Sir, are you sure? Frampton’s mother was 16 when he was born, and his father left the family when Frampton was a toddler. When Frampton was 9, his youngest brother died of muscular dystrophy, a genetic condition, two weeks after his first birthday. Frampton’s grief and the upheaval of moving disrupted his schooling, he said, and set him on an outsider’s path. “I always felt just that I didn’t fit into certain groups,” he said.

Source: New York Times May 01, 2019 13:07 UTC