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Coming along at about the same time the first wave of punk hit England, Bristol’s Glaxo Babies were already working on their amalgam of funk and mutant disco while the Sex Pistols were encouraging spitting by their fans. It might be a statement on band member’s intelligence – even if John Lydon still ranks as one of the most important musical figures in the last half of the twentieth century. But the fact that Glaxo Babies ostenensibly figured out Public Image Limited’s formal three years early points to some weird stirrings out there in the UK.