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King Mob were an English radical group based in London during the late 1960s/early 1970s.〔http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/mob-who-shouldnt-really-be-here〕 They were a cultural mutation of the Situationists and the anarchist group UAW/MF. They sought to emphasise the cultural anarchy and disorder being ignored in Britain, with the ultimate aim of promoting proletarian revolution. They derived their name from Christopher Hibbert's 1958 book on the Gordon Riots of June 1780, in which rioters daubed the slogan "His Majesty King Mob"' on the walls of Newgate prison, after gutting the building. ==Actions== King Mob appreciated pop culture and distributed their ideas and political ideas through various posters and through their publication ''King Mob Echo'', which provoked reaction by celebrating killers like Jack the Ripper, Mary Bell, and John Christie. One flyer in particular celebrated Valerie Solanas' 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol and included a hit-list of: Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Richard Hamilton, Mario Amaya (who was also shot by Solanas), David Hockney, Mary Quant, Twiggy, Marianne Faithfull, and ''IT'' editor Barry Miles. The King Mob group allegedly planned a series of audacious actions, including blowing up a waterfall in England's Lake District, painting the poet Wordsworth's house with the words "Coleridge Lives", and hanging peacocks in London's Holland Park. However, none of the aforementioned plans were executed. An action that was carried out, inspired by the New York-based Black Mask's "mill-in at Macy's", involved King Mob appearing at the Selfridges store in London, with one member, dressed as Father Christmas, attempting to distribute all of the store's toys to children. Members of the London constabulary subsequently forced the children to return the toys. This action involved Malcolm McLaren who reputably applied the group's situationist ideas in the promotion of the Sex Pistols.〔http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/ass/punk.htm〕 King Mob were also responsible for various attacks on art galleries and for organising a battle between local skinheads (whom they considered to be "the working class avant-garde") and greasers in central London. 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「King Mob」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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