"It was the time of the Queen's silver jubilee, I remember, and for a while it seemed everyone was singing either the national anthem or "God Save the Queen" by the Sex Pistols. It was somehow wonderfully revealing of your national character that these two songs could be on everybody's lips at the same time ... I felt there was an energy and inventiveness in Britain that you didn't encounter anywhere else in Europe, and all done without self-importance, with this extraordinary irony that is so unique to the Brits.
And now this same generation is doing ... what ? "