John Waters

Scala!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World’s Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits

By Perry Norton | March 2024

Back in 1988, my flatmate Pete and I went to London to see Jean Michel Jarre’s Destination Docklands. We didn’t have tickets but…

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