Jordan (Pamela Rooke)

Jordan (born Pamela Rooke on 23 June 1955) in Seaford, East Sussex, is a model and actress noted for her work with Vivienne Westwood and the SEX boutique in the Kings Road area of London in the mid-1970s.

She was a fixture at many of the early Sex Pistols performances. Her style and fashion sense — a platinum-blonde bouffant hairdo with dark raccoon-like eye make-up — made her a highly visible icon of the London punk subculture. In the late 1970s, she briefly dated singer Adam Ant and served as the manager for Ant's band Adam & the Ants. She recorded several tracks as a guest vocalist with the band for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel's Peel Sessions.

She made a cameo appearance in Derek Jarman's debut film, "Sebastiane" and played the lead role in his follow-up film "Jubilee", as the punk "anti-historian" Amyl Nitrate.

Jordan now works as a veterinary nurse and breeds Burmese cats.

External links

* [http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/jordan.htm Women in Punk: Jordan]
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