Pamela Rooke
Birthday: 1955-06-23
Place of Birth: East Sussex, England
Biography: Known as Jordan, Seaford born Pamela Rooke was the Vivienne Westwood model, punk performer, band manager and actress credited with helping to create the W10 London punk aesthetic. She made a cameo appearance in Derek Jarman's debut film Sebastiane, and played the lead role in his follow-up film Jubilee as the punk "anti-historian" Amyl Nitrate, after the drug Amyl Nitrite. She can also be seen in Julien Temple's The Great Rock and Roll Swindle wearing an "only anarchists are pretty" T-shirt and appearing on stage with the Sex Pistols during their first live television performance of "Anarchy in the U.K." in August 1976 on Tony Wilson's So It Goes Granada TV programme
Movies
Jubilee
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed si...
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols m...
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I Swear I Was There
A one-hour documentary narrated by Ralf Little about the Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Ha...
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Nightshift
As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange...
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Jordan's Dance
This film was shot on Super-8 by Derek Jarman in 1977 and is considered to be the inspiration for Ju...
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Sebastiane
Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard ...
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The Filth and the Fury
Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, ...
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The Way They Were: Punk and the New Wave 1976-1978
A compilation of performances by bands taken from his previous TV shows in the late 70's, such as "S...
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Steppin' Out
Short documentary film on the fashionable nightclubs and the trendy pop culture scenes that were fam...
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