Jordan Mooney together with Vivienne Westwood, 1977.

Jordan

Pictures scanned from an adult magazine called Gallery International (1976). They're from an article on 'Sex' shop with a 5 page interview with Malcolm McLaren .

Adam Ant and Jordan attend the opening of Jubilee in Bloomsbury, England, February 28th, 1978

Adam Ant and Pamela Rooke aka Jordan at film premiere of film Jubilee, February 1978.

Pamela Rooke

Vivienne Westwood 

April 8, 1941 – December 29, 2022

Pamela Rooke (Jordan)

June 23, 1955 – April 3, 2022

In Memoriam: pioneering scene-maker of early UK punk, a muse to Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren as well as filmmaker Derek Jarman, and the original one-woman Sex Pistol Jordan (née Pamela Rooke, 23 June 1955 - 3 April 2022) died on this day two years ago. If the 1970s London punk subculture had an “It girl”, it was Jordan. Her confrontational sense of style and intimidating demeanour made Jordan a natural employee selling kinky latex bondage wear at Westwood and McLaren’s outré SEX boutique on London’s King Road in 1975. As Jon Savage recalls in his definitive 1991 punk history England’s Dreaming, it was a perfect fit. “(Jordan) was a living advertisement for the new shop, having turned her own body into an art object.” I treasure my sole fleeting encounter with her in 2012 at the book launch party for Punk’s Dead by Simon Barker. Jordan was holding court, surrounded by admirers, in front of one of Barker’s portraits of her. I approached and she graciously autographed a postcard for me. To do it, Jordan turned me around and wrote it against my back, gripping my shoulder with her free hand – which melted my punk heart! Jordan was truly a woman and a half. Fun fact: a besotted John Waters admitted he used to keep a photo of Jordan pinned to the bulletin board above his writing desk for inspiration. 

Remembering British punk icon and Jubilee star Pamela Rooke on the anniversary of her death.

R.I.P. (1955 - 2022)

February 1978. Released a year after the royal Silver Jubilee to which the title alludes, this colorful, moderately surreal, definitely pretentious Derek Jarman punk indulgence is framed by an odd sequence in which an angel (Ian Charleson) gives Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) and John Dee (Richard O'Brien) a glimpse of the future, where a group of young punks — Amyl (Pamela Rooke, aka Jordan), Crabs (Little Nell, aka Nell Campbell, who could have convincingly played Helen Mirren's younger sister), Viv (Linda Spurrier), Mad (Toyah Willcox), Sphinx (Karl Johnson), Angel (Ian Charleson), and Kid (Adam Ant), along with the somewhat older and decidedly mad Bod (also Runacre) — struggle with end-of-the-world ennui and boredom that they try to fill with looting, sex, music (produced by the deranged Borgia Ginz, played by Jack Birkett, aka Orlando), mindless aggro, and the occasional recreational murder. (The story doesn't ever spell out exactly why the world is ending, but anyone living in the gloomy inflationary austerity of late '70s Britain hardly needed any elaboration on that score.)

Even if you don't recognize the various punk and New Wave figures who appear throughout, the film captures the early punk sensibility pretty well, although for all its mayhem, its aura of studied disaffection makes it rather slow-moving and occasionally dull. This seems intentional — the characters themselves are desperately bored, and while everyone's still going through the motions out of inertia or nostalgia, the point is that there is no point.

For all that, JUBILEE is still significantly less cynical than the later LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS (which also features an array of punk stars), and occasionally manages to seem strangely wistful. CONTAINS LESBIANS? There's a fair amount of gay sex, but the closest it gets to wlw is a scene where Bod and Mad do a little knife-play. VERDICT: Definitely an acquired taste, but if you have any interest in punk, New Wave, or post punk, it's essential viewing. As a companion piece, try the somewhat earlier THE FINAL PROGRAMME (also with Jenny Runacre), based on Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novel, which is similar in tone and sensibility.

Pamela Rooke, aka Jordan, in 1977

I know I frightened the living daylights out of most of the people who walked into Sex. Boy George was a frequent visitor and he’s said I was pretty intimidating. Adam Ant told me he saw me as the living epitome of his idea of a dominatrix. Why was I like that? It’s hard to describe. I felt my expressions should be in tune with what I was wearing – like a work of art. Jordan Mooney

Jordan and Ted Polhemus recall a prank that she and friend Johnny Rotten pulled while attending a rubberwear show (excerpt from Defying Gravity: Jordan’s Story)

heres a picture of the two troublemakers together! Vivienne Westwood is standing in the back

God Save The Queen -  Pamela Rooke (1955 - 2022), aka Jordan, and Simon Barker, aka Six

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THE SOFTER SIDE OF FIRST WAVE UK PUNK -- A TRULY "AWWW" MOMENT.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on an early, if slightly "tender" photo of Simon Barker (photographer & member of the Bromley Contingent), Jordan (b. Pamela Rooke), and Siouxsie Sioux, c. 1976.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3324148754962980942.

What I imagine MJ looks like in Hobie’s universe. Her makeup is inspired by one our universe’s of the original punks, Jordan Mooney.