Pamela Rooke

Pamela Rooke (23 June 1955 – 3 April 2022), Alongside Johnny Rotten, Soo Catwoman, and Siouxsie Sioux, she is credited with creating the London punk look.

Biography Rooke took the single name "Jordan" at the age of 14, in Seaford, East Sussex. When Jordan first walked into 430 King's Road, London, wearing gold stilettos, a see-through net skirt, with a white bouffant hairstyle, it had just changed to Sex, each day to London from Seaford. She recalled that her punk image caused problems for her:

In early 1977, Rooke served as an early manager for The Ants, later extended to Adam and the Ants. She recorded the track "Lou" (about Lou Reed) as a guest lead vocalist with the band for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel's Peel Sessions and often performed the song live with them from mid-1977 up until 14 May 1978, when she left the band after a gig at Roundhouse.

Rooke 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 (named after the drug amyl nitrite). She can also be seen in Julien Temple's The Great Rock and Roll Swindle wearing an "Only anarchists are pretty" T-shirt and appearing on stage with the Sex Pistols during their first live television performance of "Anarchy in the U.K." in August 1976.

In 1984, after divorcing Mooney, Rooke returned to Seaford, breeding Burmese cats and working as a veterinary nurse. Rooke's autobiography, Defying Gravity: Jordan's Story, written with Cathi Unsworth, was published by Omnibus Press in 2019.

Death On 4 April 2022, Rooke’s partner and Brighton and Hove's News journalist Nick Linazasoro announced that following a short period of illness, Rooke had died the previous night in her hometown of Seaford, East Sussex on 3 April 2022 from cholangiocarcinoma at the age of 66.