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The Gun Is Loaded

The Gun Is Loaded

Music

35m

December 16, 1989 (35 years ago)

Overview

At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a broadside. From a formal podium, she attacks the white male power structure of the US. Next she takes on her parents. Then, the volume lowered and the background the streets of New York, she lets us know what she thinks of life, of herself, and of us, anyone who's watching or listening. Life is depression, despair, and death. She's the girl next door gone bad. And us? Compliant sheep. Lunch lays out a challenge.

ActorAge thenAge now
Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch

Herself

Birthday: June 2, 1959

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