THE HISTORY OF ROCK MAGAZINE 1979 - ISSUE 15 - THE JAM DAVID BOWIE PAUL WELLERWelcome to 1979 There are those who think that the death of Sid Vicious in New York of a heroin overdose at the start of the year signals with it the death of punk. Perhaps it was simply a passing fad, as rock n roll itself was once thought to beIn many ways, however, punk continues to proliferate. There are tawdry elements to this the faintly sleazy exploitation industry around Sid and the Pistols; the McLaren Lydon litigation, to name two but there