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Acme Attractions was a London clothing store on Kings Road, Chelsea, London that in the early 1970s provided a place for many punk and reggae musicians and scensters to hang out. The "Don" of Acme was shop assistant and manager Don Letts: ==History== Acme Attractions was inspired by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's Fifties-inspired boutique ''Let it Rock'' (revamped in 1972 and renamed Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die). In spring 1974, a radical change saw the shop become SEX: selling fetish wear and Westwood's innovative designs. Acme's owner, John Krevine, decided to venture into clothing with a man called Steph Raynor. In 1974, Acme Attractions initially opened as a stall on the Kings Road, Chelsea in a place called the Antiquarius. While the store was owned by Krevine and Raynor its public face was Don Letts who says that Acme was selling, "electric-blue zoot suits and jukeboxes, and pumping dub reggae all day long.".〔 The store would actually have to move to the basement, after complaints about Don Lett's pounding dub reggae.〔 Within two weeks of opening there were queues around the block to get in. Steph Raynor remembers: By the mid 70s, Acme had quite a scene attracting the likes of The Clash, the Sex Pistols, Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, Deborah Harry and Bob Marley. Letts remembers that "Marley ... come by because he knew he could get a good draw from the thriving black-market action that also went on in Acme." 〔 The Acme accountant, Andrew Czezowski, seeing the potential in the crowd the store attracted started up The Roxy, the first punk-rock venue in London, so that people could go from the store and have some place to party. Letts was the first house DJ.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Acme Attractions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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