As a muse to Vivienne Westwood and the Sex Pistols, Rooke helped shape the unforgettable style of the punk movement in 1970s London.
Pamela Rooke, the style icon and legendary figure in the British punk scene better known as Jordan, died on 3 April at the age of 66, her partner. “She died peacefully a stone’s throw away from the sea in her hometown of Seaford, East Sussex in the company of her loving family at 9 pm last night,” he wrote, adding that her passing followed a short period of illness due to a rare form of bile duct cancer. “Jordan was a wonderful woman and will be remembered for countless decades to come.
Born in Seaford in 1955, Rooke began her journey to the heady heights of the 1970s punk movement in London when she changed her name to Jordan as a rebellious 14-year-old – inspired by the “powerful androgyny” of Jordan Baker insoon after which she was suspended from school for her eye-popping outfits.
, during a BBC Radio 1 session overseen by the agenda-setting DJ John Peel. After marrying Rooke, bassist Kevin Mooney split off from Adam and the Ants to form Wide Boy Awake, which Rooke continued to manage throughout the 1980s. Another pivotal friendship forged during these years – and arguably the one for which Jordan herself is best known – was with Derek Jarman, the genre-defying filmmaker and activist now remembered for his collaborations with a young
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