CAN’T FIGHT THIS FELINE

Punk fans, plus Gerard Taylor of The Wildcats, 1978

Taylor, in the foreground of Nissen’s photograph, was already rock aristocracy, being the third child of former Beatles PR man Derek Taylor. Behind him, the graffiti’d walls of the Masque club are unmistakable. “It was rough,” says Nissen. “There was nothing about it that was finished or done or anything. It was just this raw space that fit everybody perfectly.”