Siouxsie Sioux is making a comeback. The singer, now 65 years old, will be playing a concert next March, her first in 10 years.

This is exciting news for those of us who are fans not just of rock ‘n’ roll but of rock ‘n’ roll rebellion. Yes, rock ‘n’ roll has always had a reputation as a rough art form that subverted middle-class propriety, but in my heyday in the 1980s, when Siouxsie was at her peak with her group Siouxsie and the Banshees, it meant a lot more. Rock ‘n’ roll meant the freedom to criticize anybody and anything — even political correctness, the government, and communism.