In 1977, merely suggesting that the Queen was a moron (or a potential H Bomb) would get you banned from the charts. These days The Sex…
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In 1980, four Brummie drinking buddies got together and formed a band inspired by the mid-70s punk acts. Initially called Charged GBH, somehow this rowdy…
In good punk tradition, the Anti-Nowhere League formed in Kent, England, in 1980 out of sheer boredom. The band members were old friends, congenital troublemakers…
The Angelic Upstarts were formed in South Shields (Tyneside) in 1978 after the initial punk explosion had hit London. Their first single The Murder of Liddle…
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle was Malcolm McLaren’s self-aggrandizing rewrite of recent history. His beloved Sex Pistols figured only as puppets, with McLaren tugging the…
One of the great English punk bands of the late ’70s, X-Ray Spex was formed in 1976 by school friends Poly Styrene (or Marian Elliott as she…
With their raw, enthusiastic immaturity, The Adverts were a bright but short-lived light of the punk era, and their bass player Gaye Advert (pictured below)…
999 formed in London in May 1977. Led by vocalist/guitarist Nick Cash (a onetime student at the Canterbury College of Art under the tutelage of Ian Dury and…
You would be excused for thinking that a band who sing about kicking a Mod in the head to the tune of Jingle Bells, fronted by…
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was born on 22 January 1946 in North London. His father left when he was two and he and his brother…
Just three months after the September 1976 punk festival, the Roxy opened in a former gay club at 41-43 Neal Street in the West End…
The New York club that propelled American rock into the 1970s by launching unsigned and untried bands such as Television, Talking Heads and The Ramones, was started by a…
The Adicts were a British punk quartet founded in Ipswich, Suffolk, in the late ’70s by lead singer Monkey (Keith Warren), guitarist Pete Davison, bassist…
God bless The Sex Pistols. During their chaotic two-year existence, they introduced real musical anarchy to the world, yoking their working-class anger and disgust to…
If you thought Jefferson Airplane was a weird name, let some of these drop off your tongue. Talking Heads. Tuff Darts. Ramones. Planets. Heartbreakers. Shirts.…
The undisputed heroes of the early 80s skinhead scene, The 4 Skins were one of the mainstays of the second-wave of British punk commonly known as Oi! They endured major…
Despite initially forming in 1976 with a line up centred around vocalist Phil “Shonna” Rzonca and guitarist Dave Ryan, the Abrasive Wheels (the name was…
