Nora Forster, 80, Who Married (and Stayed Married to) a Sex Pistol, Dies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“In Munich, the police were knocking at the door every night because of the loud acid parties,” her daughter once said. “She was fed up with it. You have to go to London to live that lifestyle.”

Ms. Forster did just that in about 1970, and by the middle of the decade she had become enmeshed in the punk-rock scene that was starting to roil Britain and the music industry as a whole. She became what the rock journalist Vivien Goldman called “a den mother to all the young punks,” including Arianna, who in 1976, at age 14, renamed herself Ari Up and joined with a drummer called Palmolive to found the Slits, soon to be a leading female punk band of the era."

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Nora Forster, 80, Who Married (and Stayed Married to) a Sex Pistol, Dies