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The mid-to-late 1970s saw bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Damned and the Clash leading the British punk movement, while the Ramones anchored a New York variant centered around the downtown club ...
No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion is a compilation album chronicling the punk rock movement of the 1970s. Released by Rhino Entertainment on October 28, 2003, the box set of four compact discs includes 100 tracks originally released between 1973 and 1980, performed by 75 artists from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Ireland.
You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk, 1977–1984 is a 2007 documentary film about punk subculture in Chicago from 1977 through 1984. The film was written and directed by Joe Losurdo and Christina Tillman, and profiles the punk bars and local bands that gave rise to the city's punk rock scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. [1]
Revolver is a British music TV series on ITV that ran for one series only, of eight episodes, in 1978.. It was produced by ATV, and the series creator and producer was Mickie Most.
Gavin Walsh (born 1965) is an Irish computer programmer, non-fiction writer, and collector of rare music memorabilia.. Walsh began collecting music memorabilia at the age of 14, traveling from his home town of Sligo to Dublin to purchase rare records and working in hotels to fund his hobby. [1]
DIY Punk Rock label Dischord Records was founded by key figure in the development of hardcore punk Ian Mackaye. Ian Curtis, Joy Division lead singer, commits suicide 18 May 1980 at age 23. The rest of the band become New Order; Malcolm Owen, the Ruts lead singer, dies of a heroin overdose 14 July 1980 at age 26.
Johnny Moped's style has been variously described as: 'Moronic punk 'n' roll fusing future Chiswick label-mates Motörhead with the manic humour of John Otway’. [7]'They were one of Chiswick’s top bands because they bridged the gap between mid-seventies pub rock and the beery end of punk'.
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and 1960s garage rock , punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music.