proto-Titanic and post-Titanic

I've posted here before about Mick Farren 's famous " The Titanic Sails At Dawn " polemic. Appearing in the NME 's June 19 1976 issue, the piece is legendarily claimed to have played a precipitative role in the punk uprising. It identified a malaise in rock: the loss of its connection to "the streets" and "the kids" that traverse them; the recline and fall of a rebel sound into mere showbiz. And…