Jak Airport

Working musicians usually get to see more than enough of airports, but here's a guy who saw one every time he looked at his stage name. There will be no more such looking for Jak Airport, former guitarist with The X-ray Spex and Classix Nouveaux, who died quietly of cancer in 2004 -- at least a lot more quietly than he played his instrument. Punk rock may not be exactly known for hot lead guitarists, yet Airport's landing strip was the over the top vocals of Poly Styrene, a sound that can be compared to Little Richard and Yoko Ono stranded in a field of nettles. He had no choice but to be adventurous in his choice of chords, distorted in his tone settings and eager in his attitude, to put it mildly.



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