Oh Bondage, Up Yours!

Album: Germ Free Adolescents (1977)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" was X-Ray Spex' debut single. It didn't chart, but is considered a classic of the Punk Rock era.
  • Lead singer Poly Styrene told Mojo magazine September 2008 about this song: "Most people think it was a kinky S&M song. But it was about breaking free from the bondage of the material world. I come from a religious background and in the scriptures the whole idea of being liberated is to break free from bondage. I had an idea of the bondage of slavery and all those images in history like the suffragettes or slaves being chained up. When I saw Vivienne Westwood's shop (Sex) and all her bondage trousers it symbolized all the other bondage elements I'd grown up with."
  • "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" came together spontaneously. When saxophonist Lora Logic turned up to rehearse, the producer Falcon Stuart told her they were going to the studio. "It was either the first or second take, maybe a sax overdub," recalled Logic to Mojo magazine, "and that was it, really rough and ready."

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  • Steve from DundeeHas any one got music sheet for o bondage up yours , alto saxophone
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